Kiterjedésük

Kiterjedésük is a Hungarian term formed from the noun kiterjedés (extent, reach, scope) with the third-person plural possessive suffix -ük. The result means “their extent” or “the extent of them” and is used to refer to the size, spread, or coverage belonging to a group of subjects mentioned earlier in the text. The construction is common in scientific, geographical, and sociological writing to describe how widespread or expansive several entities are, such as species, regions, populations, organizations, or administrative areas.

In grammar, kiterjedésük behaves like a standard possessive phrase: the suffix -ük marks that the extent belongs to more than one subject. For singular possessors, alternative forms such as kiterjedése (his/her/its extent) are used. The word is typically placed after the head noun and can function as a predicative or attributive element, depending on sentence structure.

Usage contexts include geography to describe the territorial reach of a country or region, biology and ecology to summarize the distribution of multiple species, and social sciences to compare the breadth of different institutions or phenomena. The phrase helps convey comparative or collective information succinctly by tying the extent to the group in question.

See also: kiterjedés; possessive suffixes in Hungarian; distribution (in linguistic and scientific contexts).