Szívesekre

Szívesekre is a Hungarian linguistic form that combines the plural nominalized adjective szíves with the allative suffix -re. The base szíves means “kind,” “hospitable,” or “willing.” When szíves is pluralized as szívesek, it can function as a substantive referring to a group of people described by that property, roughly “the kind ones” or “the hospitable people.” The addition of the allative suffix -re is used to indicate direction toward that group, yielding szívesekre, interpreted as “to the kind people” or “toward the hospitable ones.”

In contemporary standard Hungarian, the use of szívesekre is rare and is primarily encountered in linguistic descriptions, philology, or stylistic, archaic, or poetic contexts. For directing toward a group of people, modern usage more commonly employs other constructions such as to the group with the appropriate suffixes for persons (for example, using -hoz/-höz/-höz for toward a group) or rephrasing to avoid the allative form on a plural substantive. Therefore szívesekre stands as a niche example of Hungarian morphology rather than a common everyday form.

Etymology can be described as szíves deriving from the predicate sense “kind, hospitable,” with szívesek functioning as a plural noun phrase referring to people described in that way. The suffix -re marks the allative relation, a grammatical case used to express direction toward a referent, in this case a plural group.

See also: Hungarian grammar, allative case, suffix -hoz/-hez/-höz, nominalized adjectives.