életekkel

életekkel is the instrumental plural form of the Hungarian noun élet, meaning life. In Hungarian grammar, the instrumental case marks the means or accompaniment of an action. The instrumental plural is formed by taking the plural stem életek (the plural nominative of élet) and adding the suffix -kel, yielding életekkel. The result contains a double consonant (életek + -kel → életekkel) due to the final k of the stem and the initial k of the suffix.

Usage is primarily literary or descriptive, where multiple lives serve as the means or context for an action, or when discussing interactions with several lives in a figurative sense. In everyday speech, the singular instrumental is more common, while the plural instrumental appears mainly in prose that deals with multiple lives or characters.

Example: A regény a különböző életekkel való találkozásokkal foglalkozik. This illustrates how életekkel can link to other instrumental forms in a sentence to express “with various lives” or “through interactions with lives.”

See also: élet, életek, val/vel constructions in Hungarian grammar.