Felkeltnek

Felkeltnek is a Hungarian verb form used to express that something or someone arouses, awakens, or stimulates a reaction in others. It is a present-tense form associated with the verb felkeltetni or its stem felkel-, and it is typically used with a plural subject. The prefix fel- adds a sense of uplifting or waking up, while kel- traces back to the root meaning “to wake” or “to rise.”

In meaning, felkeltnek covers a broad range of responses, including interest, curiosity, attention, sympathy, or emotional reaction. It is a transitive usage: the thing that triggers the reaction is the subject’s action, and the reaction is directed toward an object such as az érdeklődés (the interest) or a figyelem (the attention). The expression is common in journalism, literature, and public discourse when describing how events, statements, or stimuli provoke a response among people.

Common collocations in Hungarian include felkeltik az érdeklődést (to arouse interest) and felkelti a figyelmet (to attract attention). The form felkeltnek appears in contexts describing plural subjects producing such effects. As with other finite verb forms, its exact usage depends on sentence structure, tense, and aspect, but the core idea remains: a plural subject causes a reaction in others.

Etymology traces felkeltnek to the prefix fel- (“up,” “awake”) and the root kel- (to wake), combined to convey the notion of waking up a response. This makes felkeltnek part of a family of Hungarian expressions about eliciting reactions and engagement.