értend

Értend is a form associated with Hungarian grammar and legal/formal usage, most commonly encountered as part of the expression "értendő" or in definitional phrases meaning "is to be understood (as)". It is not an independent English word but a morphological element derived from the Hungarian verb érteni ("to understand"). In practice it marks that a term or phrase should be interpreted in a specific sense within the current text.

Etymology and form: the element comes from the verb stem ér(t)- combined with the participial/necessitative suffix -endő, producing a passive or interpretive sense ("to be understood"). In modern orthography the full form értendő is standard; the variant without the diacritic (értend) can appear in older texts, typographical contexts, or when diacritics are omitted.

Usage: the construction is frequent in legislative, administrative and scholarly Hungarian, used for definitions and clarifications (for example, a clause stating that one concept "értendő" as another). Grammatically it functions like a predicative participle or adjective that assigns an interpretive relation between terms. Pronunciation in Hungarian approximates "ER-tend" to anglophone readers.