Radulával

Radulával is a Hungarian instrumental case form of the noun radula, a feeding organ found in many mollusks. The form is used to indicate the instrument or means by which an action is performed, and can be translated roughly as “with a radula” or “using a radula.” The base word radula is borrowed from Latin, where it refers to a tongue-like structure used by snails and other mollusks to scrape food.

In Hungarian, the instrumental suffix -val/-vel marks means or instruments. When attached to a stem ending in a vowel, the form typically becomes -val (as in radulával). The word thus functions similarly to other instrumental noun forms, allowing researchers and writers to specify how an action is carried out.

Radulával appears most often in scientific or descriptive contexts, particularly in biology, malacology, and paleontology, where it may describe actions performed with or by a mollusk’s radula. It can also appear in more general writings when a literal or metaphorical instrument is being described.

Examples include: A tengeri csiga a radulával dörzsöli le az algát a kövekről. (The sea snail uses the radula to scrub algae from the rocks.) A kutatók a radulával végzett őrlési folyamatokat vizsgálták. (The researchers examined the grinding processes performed with a radula.)

See also: radula, Hungarian instrumental case.