Halottat

Halottat is a Hungarian grammatical form, the definite accusative singular of the noun halott, which means a dead person or, more broadly, a deceased individual. This form is used when the dead person is the direct object of a transitive verb and the object is definite, a common situation in both spoken and written Hungarian.

In practical terms, halottat is not a separate word with its own meaning beyond being a declined form. The related noun holttest refers to the body of a deceased person, i.e., the corpse, while halott describes the person who has died. The definite accusative suffix -at is attached to halott to yield halottat, as in sentences like Látom a halottat (I see the dead person) or Megtalálták a halottat a romok között (They found the dead person among the rubble).

Usage of halottat appears in neutral or formal contexts such as news reporting, forensic descriptions, medical or legal writing, where the deceased is treated as a definite object within a sentence. In everyday speech, speakers may instead use holttestet when referring specifically to the corpse, or halott személyt for a more general or respectful reference to the deceased.

See also: halott, holttest, halott személy. The term halottat functions solely as a inflected form rather than as an independent lexical entry, and its exact usage depends on article definiteness and the surrounding grammatical construction.