Irányzatokra

Irányzatokra is the plural allative form of the Hungarian noun irányzat, which means direction, tendency, trend, or school of thought. The base irányzat denotes a particular line of development within a field, such as art, literature, science, or politics. The plural irányzatok refers to several such directions, while the allative form irányzatokra marks movement toward or targeting those directions. This form is used in sentences that describe reference to or categorization of multiple trends.

Grammatical notes: Hungarian uses the allative case to indicate direction toward something, with the plural suffix -okra after consonants. Therefore, irányzatokra signals “toward the directions” or “to the trends” in contexts where something is being aligned with, discussed in terms of, or distributed across several trends or categories.

Usage: The term appears mainly in academic and cultural discourse when discussing how concepts, ideas, or phenomena can be grouped into different trends. It is common in analyses of artistic movements, philosophical schools, literary currents, and methodological approaches, where a topic is examined with respect to multiple directions or schools of thought.

Etymology: the form combines irányzat with the plural marker -ok and the allative suffix -ra/-re, resulting in -okra for the plural allative.

See also: irányzat, irányzatok, Hungarian case endings.