Napjához

Napjához is a Hungarian directional postpositional construction formed from napja (the third-person possessive form of nap, meaning either sun or day) plus the postposition -hoz, meaning “to” or “toward.” The result, napjához, translates roughly as “to his sun” or “to his day,” with the exact sense determined by the context and by which sense of nap is intended.

Morphology and construction: napja is built from nap by adding the possessive suffix -ja to indicate ownership by a third person. The directional suffix -hoz then attaches to the possessed noun, with its form chosen according to vowel harmony; napja ends in a back vowel, so the correct directional form is -hoz, yielding napjához. This is an example of how Hungarian combines a possessive noun with a directional postposition to express motion toward something belonging to someone.

Usage: napjához is relatively specialized and is most often found in literary or poetic language rather than everyday speech. It conveys movement or orientation toward an entity associated with a particular person, rather than a simple literal “to the sun” or “to the day.” The phrase is part of Hungarian’s broader system of postpositional suffixes (-hoz, -hez, -höz) that encode direction and relation.

See also: Hungarian grammar; postpositional suffixes; -hoz/-hez/-höz; noun possessives.