ablaktól

Ablaktól is a Hungarian postpositional form meaning "from the window." It is created by attaching the suffix -tól to the noun ablaktak? Actually ablaktól is formed from ablakt- (the stem of ablaktól) combined with the suffix -ól/-tól, yielding ablaktól, which designates origin or starting point. The expression denotes that something originates at or emanates from the window or the area around the window.

In usage, ablaktól answers questions of origin such as honnan? (from where?). It is commonly employed with verbs of movement or emission, where the window is the source. For example: A fény az ablakoktól beárad a szobába (The light enters the room from the windows). A levegő az ablakoktól beáramlik a szobába (The air streams into the room from the windows). The form can also appear with plural or collective references to windows: az ablakoktól.

Ablaktól is often interchangeable with phrases like az ablakok felől or ablaktól kiindulva, depending on nuance. Ablaktól emphasizes the point of origin rather than the path through an opening (which would be ablakkal or ablakból in other contexts). In everyday Hungarian, ablaktól is a standard, neutral option for describing natural phenomena (light, wind, sound) or actions that originate at a window.

Related forms include ablaktól til?; in practice, speakers choose ablaktól for origin from windows, while ablaktól beárad vagy bejut hangsúlyoz the movement from that origin. See also ablaktól versus ablakhónap? for contrasts in regional usage.