csapatát

csapatát is a Hungarian grammatical form derived from the noun csapat, meaning a team or group organized for a common purpose. The base noun csapat is used for sports teams, work squads, military units, or any organized group. The word csapatát specifically refers to the team when it is the definite direct object of a sentence, indicating that the speaker is talking about a particular team already identified or understood from context.

Morphology: In Hungarian, possession is expressed by attaching suffixes to the possessed noun. For a third-person singular possessor, the possessive suffix is -a or -e, giving csapata for “his/her team.” When that noun is used as a definite object, the definite direct-object suffix -t is added, producing csapatát. Thus both ownership and the definite object are encoded in a single form: csapatát = “his/her/its team” as a defined object. Other possessors yield forms such as csapatom, csapatod, csapatunk, csapatotok, csapatuk, with their respective definite-object variants formed analogously.

Usage: csapatát appears mainly in written Hungarian when the referent is clearly identified and the team is the direct object of the verb. It is common in sports journalism, organizational reports, and narrative prose. For example: A csapatát láttam a Stadionban. This means “I saw his/her team in the stadium.” Another example: A kapitány dicsérte a csapatát, meaning “The captain praised his team.” The form helps specify both possession and the definite status of the object in a single word.