Meghatódik

Meghatódik is a Hungarian verb meaning to become emotionally moved or touched, typically by something that evokes sympathy, tenderness, or admiration. The sense is predominantly emotional rather than physical and is commonly used to describe a person’s reaction to events, stories, performances, or acts of kindness.

Usage and construction. Meghatódik is intransitive, with the subject experiencing the emotion. It can appear with temporal or causal phrases such as "a történet hatására meghatódott" (moved by the story) or "ő meghatódott" (he/she was moved). A related transitive form, meghatott, is used when something moves someone else, as in "a film meghatott engem" (the film moved me). The noun form "meghatódás" denotes the act or state of being moved.

Conjugation and forms. The verb follows standard Hungarian conjugation for -ódik verbs: meghatódik, meghatódik-e, meghatódott (past), meghatódva (present participle/adverbial form). The adjective "megható" describes something emotionally touching or moving and is often used in parallel with meghatódik.

Etymology and related terms. The word combines a prefix meg- with a stem indicating an emotional shift, giving the sense "to become moved." Related terms include megható (emotionally touching) and megindul (to be stirred or set in motion, sometimes used metaphorically for emotional responses).

See also. Related concepts include the verbs meghatja/meghatja valakit (to move someone emotionally), megindul (to start to feel moved or to start moving), and the adjective megható.