Csöveken

Csöveken is the locative plural form of the Hungarian noun cső, meaning pipe or tube. It is used to indicate location on or along pipes, or a passage through them, in phrases and sentences that describe spatial relations involving pipes.

In Hungarian grammar, cső forms the plural csövek in the nominative, and the locative plural suffix -en is added to the plural stem to produce csöveken. Thus csöveken denotes “on/at/in the pipes” or, when used with adverbial phrases, “through the pipes” (e.g., through or along the pipes).

Common contexts for csöveken include technical and everyday descriptions of plumbing, irrigation, or any situation involving physical pipes. It frequently appears together with postpositions like át (through), keresztül (through), vagy a közelében (near the pipes). For instance: A víz a csöveken át folyik a házba. vagy A szakemberek a csöveken dolgoztak a karbantartási projekten.

The term is not a proper noun or a standalone concept; rather, it is a grammatical form used to express location relative to pipes. As such, its interpretation depends on the surrounding words and prepositions, and it can appear in both technical documentation and descriptive prose.

See also: cső, Hungarian grammar, locative case.