Tágul

Tágul is a Hungarian verb meaning to become wider, to dilate, or to expand. It is used for both physical widening, such as a blood vessel or pupil enlarging, and more metaphorical or abstract expansion, such as horizons or possibilities. The verb is intransitive and common across medical, scientific, and everyday contexts, often describing a process rather than a result.

In practical usage, tágul forms with the usual intransitive conjugation of -ulni verbs. The present tense forms include tágulok (I dilate), tágulsz (you dilate), tágul (he/she/it dilates), tágulunk (we dilate), tágultok (you all dilate), tágulnak (they dilate). The imperfect and past forms are regular for this class of verb, for example tágultam (I dilated), tágultál (you dilated), tágultunk (we dilated), and so on. The participle tágult is used in compound tenses as well.

Noun forms related to tágul are tágulás, meaning dilation or expansion, and tágító, a dilator or device that causes dilation. Adjectival and participial forms such as táguló (dilating, expanding) and tágulási (of dilation) are common in technical and descriptive writing.

Etymology traces tágul to the base adjective tág, meaning wide, with the suffix -ul forming the intransitive verb tágulni. The concept spans medical, biological, physical, and cosmological contexts in Hungarian; for example, kozmikus tágulás refers to the expansion of the universe.

See also: tágulás, tágító, táguló, tágulásos.