Mindennek

Mindennek is a Hungarian inflected form of the determiner minden, which means “everything” or “all.” In this form it functions as the dative (to/for everything) and is used when the reference is in the dative case. The form is created by adding the dative suffix -nek/-nek to the stem minden, giving mindennek.

In usage, mindennek typically occurs in sentences where something relates to or is directed toward everything. It is common in proverbs and established expressions, and it appears in everyday speech when the speaker intends to convey a sense like “to everything” or “for everything.” A well-known example is the proverb Mindennek megvan a maga ideje, which translates as “Everything has its own time.” This illustrates how mindennek can anchor a general claim about conditions or circumstances affecting all things.

Mindennek is distinct from the bare determiner minden (meaning “everything”) and from the related forms that arise with other nouns or pronouns in different cases (for example, with élő vagy tárgyak in other grammatical figures). Its presence signals that the statement concerns or applies to everything in a given context, rather than to a specific item or a subset.

See also: Hungarian grammar, the dative case, pronouns and determiners in Hungarian, common Hungarian proverbs. Note that Hungarian word forms are case-rich, and mood and meaning are often conveyed through suffixes rather than word order alone.