Gyalogost

Gyalogost is the accusative singular form of the Hungarian noun gyalogos, which means pedestrian or walker. The base word gyalogos refers to a person who moves on foot, and it can also function as an adjective in other contexts. The nominative singular is gyalogos, the plural gyalogosok, and the accusative singular is gyalogost. The term is used in everyday language as well as in traffic- and safety-related discourse.

Gyalogos derives from gyalog, meaning by foot or walking, with the agentive suffix -os that forms nouns describing a person who performs an action or has a certain state. The accusative form gyalogost marks the direct object of a verb: for example, A sofőr elütötte a gyalogost. Translation: The driver hit the pedestrian.

In road safety and traffic laws, gyalogos is the standard term for a pedestrian. Signage often uses the noun in its base or in compound forms, such as gyalogosátkelő (pedestrian crossing) or gyalogos út (pedestrian path). The term is gender-neutral and refers to an individual pedestrian or pedestrians in general; the plural form gyalogosok is used when speaking about multiple people.

The form gyalogost specifically appears in sentences where the pedestrian is the object of an action. Like other Hungarian nouns, its form is determined by the language’s case system rather than by any separate lexical meaning.