darabja

Darabja is a Hungarian grammatical form derived from the noun darab, meaning piece or chunk. The form darabja functions as the third-person singular possessive, indicating “its piece” or “the piece belonging to something previously mentioned.” It appears in constructions where a noun referring to a whole item is followed by the possessed part, often with the possessor understood or stated in genitive form.

In everyday use, darabja is used to refer to a portion of something that has been identified earlier in discourse. Common patterns include phrases such as a cake’s piece or a piece of bread, for example: Ez a torta darabja (This is a piece of cake) and A torta darabját ettem meg (I ate the piece of the cake). The form can stand alone within a noun phrase or appear as part of a larger clause where the possession is explicit.

Grammatical notes: darabja is not a separate lexical entry; it is a morphological variant of darab used in possessive constructions. When the possessed item is the direct object, a suffix -t may appear on the possessed form, as in darabját. The word is common in everyday Hungarian and appears across various contexts involving portions, fragments, or divisions of items.

See also: darab (piece), darabkép, possessive suffixes in Hungarian. Darabja illustrates how Hungarian expresses “the piece of X” through the combination of a base noun and a third-person possessive form.