Korunktól

Korunktól is a Hungarian phrase used in linguistic and cultural analysis to denote the time starting from the present or the speaker’s contemporary moment. It functions as a temporal reference that situates statements, observations, or judgments in relation to today rather than to past eras. The expression is most common in scholarly writing, journalism, and literary criticism, where authors want to frame discussions from a contemporary standpoint.

Etymology and form: korunk means “our era” or “our time,” formed from kor (era) plus the possessive suffix -nk (our). The postposition -tól adds the sense of origin or starting point, yielding korunktól = “from our era / from our time.” The construction is a typical example of Hungarian agglutinative morphology, where a noun phrase is extended with suffixes to convey time, perspective, and relation.

Usage: korunktól is used to anchor statements in the present-day context, often in sequences that compare today with earlier periods or that highlight events from a contemporary vantage point. Phrases such as korunktól napjainkig (“from our era to the present”) or korunktól kezdve (“starting from our era”) are common in analytical prose and media commentary.

Examples:

- Korunktól napjainkig a technológiai fejlődés gyors ütemben zajlik.

- A korunktól kezdve megfigyelhető a közösségi média hatásának növekedése a kommunikációban.

See also: temporal phrases in Hungarian, tól-től constructions, Hungarian morpheme order.