Oktatását

Oktatását is a Hungarian noun form derived from oktatás, which means education or instruction. The base term oktatás denotes the act, system, or process of teaching. Oktatásának and oktatását are inflected forms used when the education or instruction is involved in a grammatical relation such as possession or as a definite direct object, respectively. In general, oktatás és its various inflections share the same core meaning, while the suffixes signal grammatical role rather than a different concept.

Etymology and derivation: Oktatás originates from the verb oktatni, meaning to teach. The noun form is created with the nominalizing suffix -ás, and further inflection yields forms like oktatásának, oktatását, and other case or possessive constructions. The form oktatását specifically marks a definite direct object or a possessive relative to the noun’s referent, depending on sentence structure.

Usage and context: Oktatást or oktatás being inflected as oktatását appears in formal, administrative, or academic Hungarian when referring to a particular act of education or training that is the object of a verb, or when indicating “its education” in relation to a subject. It is commonly found in legislative texts, policy descriptions, institutional reports, and scholarly writing where precise grammatical references to education or training are required.

See also: oktatás, oktatni, oktató.