Növényének

Növényének is a Hungarian inflected form derived from the noun növény (plant). It is used in contexts that express possession by a third-person subject or indicate an indirect object related to a plant. In English, it can translate roughly as “its plant” or “the plant’s,” depending on the syntactic role.

Morphology and function: Hungarian forms possession by attaching specific suffixes to the noun stem. For the third-person singular possessive, the suffix -e (with vowel harmony) is added to the stem, and when combined with the dative/indirect-object suffix -nek, the result is -ének. Thus növényének carries both a possessive sense (its/ of it) and a case-like sense (to/for it in a construct). The form is typically used with a following noun to indicate leaves, flowers, or other parts belonging to or addressed to the plant.

Usage and examples: Növényének appears in sentences such as “A növényének levelei zöldek,” meaning “The plant’s leaves are green,” or in constructions like “Adok vizet a növényének,” meaning “I give water to its plant” (i.e., to the plant of someone or something). The exact translation can shift with context, especially between a genitive-like relationship and a dative relationship.

Related forms: Hungarian expresses possession across multiple persons with corresponding forms, for example növényem (my plant), növényed (your plant), növényünk (our plant), növényük (their plant), and their respective case forms. Növényének is part of this system, illustrating how possession and recipient relations are encoded in a single word.

See also: Hungarian grammar, possessive constructions, genitive and dative cases in Hungarian.