Közegei

Közegei is a Hungarian grammatical form related to the noun közeg, which generally means medium or environment. In everyday and scientific Hungarian, közeg refers to the medium through which a process or wave propagates, as well as to a broader sense of setting or context. Közegei denotes a plural, possessive usage indicating “their environments” or “their media,” and it appears in contexts where multiple media are being discussed and something is attributed to those media.

In practice, közegek is the plain plural noun meaning “media” or “environments.” Közegei is used when a sentence requires a possessive plural construction for that plural, roughly corresponding to “their media” or “the media of/belonging to them.” The form is most common in technical or academic text, where precise reference to several different media or environments is needed. It is part of the broader inflectional system of közeg and reflects the language’s capacity to encode number, possession, and agreement on a single stem.

Közeg, the base noun, covers both physical and metaphorical senses of medium or environment, and it is closely related to other Hungarian terms such as közeg (a more general or everyday term for medium or environment) and köznapi értelemben vett környezet (context). The plural közegek and the possessive közegei illustrate how Hungarian marks plurality and possession on related nouns.

See also: közeg, közeg, medium, environment, wave propagation.