Terül

Terül is a Hungarian intransitive verb meaning to lie spread out, to extend over an area, or to stretch out. It is used for phenomena that occupy space, such as fog, vegetation, rivers, and for objects laid out or spread flat on a surface. The sense can be literal (the fog lies over the valley) or figurative, indicating breadth or extent of a feature.

In usage, terül describes how something covers or fills a region. Common contexts include weather and landscape descriptions (for example, “Köd terül a síkság felett” – The fog spreads over the plain) and descriptions of ground that is covered by vegetation or sediment (“A rét terül ki a völgyben” – The meadow extends into the valley). It is also used in prose to convey a sense of vastness or continuity.

Grammatically, terül is the base form used in present tense for the third-person singular; the infinitive is terülni. Like other Hungarian verbs, it forms other person-number variants with standard endings. It is intransitive and does not take a direct object; adjectives, adverbs, or prepositional phrases express the extent or manner of the spreading.

Etymologically, terül is part of a family of Hungarian verbs concerned with distribution and spatial coverage, and is related in meaning to terjed (to spread), though terül emphasizes the physical or visual spreading over an area rather than a process of expansion.

See also: terjed, terület.