bontjuk

Bontjuk is the first-person plural present indicative form of the Hungarian verb bontani, meaning to dismantle, tear down, or decompose. It is used when the subject performing the action is a group that includes the speaker, as in ordinary speech or writing.

Morphology and grammar: The form is built from the stem bont- with the present-tense suffix for 1st person plural, written as -juk in standard spelling. Hungarian verbs follow vowel harmony, so other stems would take a different suffix form (e.g., -jük) depending on the stem’s vowels; bontjukt is not typical in this context, and bontjuk reflects a back-vowel harmony pattern due to the stem vowel o. The verb bontani is transitive and can take a direct object in the accusative, as in bontjuk az épületet.

Usage: Bontjuk is used for ongoing, collective actions of breaking something down, whether physical structures, objects, or even abstract systems in a metaphorical sense. It appears in everyday conversation, news reporting, and technical contexts where a group acts to dismantle or deconstruct. For example, "Bontjuk az épületet" translates to "We are tearing down the building," and "A régi gépet darabokra bontjuk" means "We are breaking the old machine into pieces."

Related forms: The base verb bontani gives other forms such as bontok (I dismantle), bontod (you dismantle), bontja (he/she dismantles), bontjuk (we dismantle), and bontott (past tense participle, meaning dismantled). The noun bontás refers to disassembly or breakdown, and the adjective bontott can describe something that has been dismantled.

Bontjuk thus functions as a concrete, everyday verb form used to describe collective dismantling actions in Hungarian.