Térképén

Térképén is a Hungarian postpositional form meaning “on his/her map.” It is formed from the noun térkép (map) with the third-person possessive suffix -e, producing térképe (his/her map), and the locative suffix -n, yielding térképe-n, written as térképén. The construction marks a location on a map that belongs to someone, rather than on a general map.

Morphology and use are typical of Hungarian, which combines possessive and locative suffixes in a chain. The phrase can appear with a range of predicates, especially verbs of display or description, to indicate that something is depicted or laid out on a specific person’s map. The possessive suffix makes clear whose map is being referenced, while the locative suffix situates the element on that map.

In practice, térképén occurs in both literal and figurative contexts. For example, a scientist might write, “A térképén láthatók a folyók és hegyek,” meaning that the rivers and mountains are visible on his map. Another example: “A kutató térképén a vizsgált terület határai szerepelnek,” indicating that the borders of the studied area appear on the researcher’s map. The phrase thus helps distinguish between a map in general and a map belonging to a particular person or entity.

Notes on nuance: térképén differs from térképen (“on the map”) in that ter-kyépén specifies ownership and is more likely to refer to a constructed or referenced map rather than a physical surface. It is a concise example of how Hungarian encodes possession and location directly on nouns.