Iskolára

Iskolára is the directional form of the Hungarian noun iskola (the school). It marks a destination or direction toward a school in sentences, especially with verbs of motion or actions directed at a place. Hungarian expresses locational and directional relations largely through suffixes attached to nouns rather than relying on separate prepositions in many contexts, and iskolára is one such allative form.

Formation and grammar: iskola combines with the suffix -ra to form iskolára, following Hungarian vowel harmony. With stems ending in a back vowel, -ra is used; with front vowels, -re would be used. Therefore iskola + -ra yields iskolára, meaning “to the school” or “toward the school.” This form indicates destination, arrival, or the goal of an action when the school is the endpoint.

Usage: iskólára typically appears with verbs of movement or with verbs that take a directional complement, describing where an action is aimed or where an event is directed. It is part of a broader system of directional suffixes in Hungarian, which also includes forms such as -ba/-be for movement into a place, -hoz/-hez/-höz for toward a person or direction, and -ban/-ben for being inside a place.

See also: Hungarian language, Hungarian grammar, postpositional case, allative.