Tagállamaiban

Tagállamaiban is a Hungarian grammatical form meaning “in its member states.” It is a combination built from tagállam (member state) with a third-person possessive suffix indicating “its,” followed by the inessive plural suffix -iban, yielding tagállamaiban. The form is used to refer to the locations within the member states of a group, organization, or entity that comprises several member states, such as a union or alliance.

Morphologically, tagállamaiban can be analyzed as tagállam + a (possessive suffix for its) + i (part of the plural form) + ban/ben (inessive), here in the plural variant -iban. This construction shows how Hungarian often layers possession and case endings to express location and scope.

Usage in discourse is common in political, legal, and administrative texts when discussing responsibilities, regulations, or activities that span multiple member states. For example, in a sentence like Az Európai Unió irányelvei a tagállamaiban érvényesek, meaning “The European Union directives are in force in its member states,” tagállamaiban signals that the subject’s jurisdiction covers several states.

In summary, tagállamaiban is a specialized locative form used to denote actions, regulations, or phenomena occurring within the member states of a larger entity. It reflects Hungarian’s capacity to encode possession and location within a single word, facilitating precise reference in formal writing. See also tagállam, tagállamok, inessive cases in Hungarian.