Szerepeit

Szerepeit is a Hungarian inflected form derived from the noun szerep, meaning "role." It is used to refer to the roles associated with a person or a group, and it translates roughly to "his/her/their roles" in English, depending on the context. As a grammatical form, it appears in sentences where possession and number are encoded directly in the noun.

Morphology and form: In Hungarian, nouns change shape through suffixes to indicate possession, number, and case. Szerepeit results from combining the base szerep with the possessive suffix for a third-person possessor and with markers that place the noun in a definite, direct-object context in a sentence. The exact meaning—whether referring to one person’s multiple roles or multiple people’s roles—depends on the surrounding context and pronouns.

Usage and examples: The form is common in literary analysis, biographical writing, and reviews where an actor, writer, or public figure’s set of functions or parts is discussed. For example, a sentence such as "A színész a szerepeit jól alakította" means “The actor played his roles well.” Another example is "A rendező a szerepeit sorolta fel," meaning “The director listed his roles.” Beyond theatre, szerepeit can be used metaphorically to talk about someone’s various responsibilities or positions in life.

Related information: Szerep means “role” or “part,” both in a theatrical and a figurative sense. Hungarian uses suffixal morphology to express possession and case directly on the noun, making forms like szerepeit compact carriers of grammatical information within fluid sentences.