csökkentését

Csökkentését is a Hungarian noun form related to csökkentés, which means reduction or decrease. The base word csökkentés denotes a lowering or curtailment of quantity, level, price, or intensity. Csökkentését is a grammatical inflected form used when the reduction is the object of a sentence, typically in formal or written Hungarian. In practical use, it appears in constructions such as “a költségek csökkentését tervezték” (they planned the reduction of costs) or “a nyugdíjak csökkentését javasolták” (they proposed a reduction of pensions). The form thus functions as the definite direct object of a verb, with the referent made explicit by context.

Contexts and usage

Csökkentését is common in economic, political, and administrative discourse, where speakers discuss changes to budgets, prices, taxes, subsidies, or regulatory thresholds. It can appear with statements about planned, proposed, or enacted reductions, and with modifiers that specify what is being reduced, such as költségek (costs), árak (prices), adók (taxes), vagy kibocsátás (emissions).

Grammar notes

Csökkentés is formed with the noun-deriving suffix -és from the verb csökkenteni (to reduce). The ending -ét marks the form used when the noun functions as a definite direct object in a sentence. This reflects Hungarian inflection patterns where nouns take various suffixes to indicate grammatical case and definiteness.

Etymology

The term derives from csökkenteni, with -és forming an abstract noun meaning the act or process of reducing. The attached -ét signals a particular, definite object within a sentence.