kabátját

Kabátját is a Hungarian grammatical form meaning “his coat” or “her coat,” used when the coat belongs to a specific person and is the definite direct object of the verb. The base noun is kabát, meaning coat. The form kabátja marks third-person possession (his/her/its coat), and the additional definite-object suffix -t marks the noun as a definite object within the sentence. The resulting sequence is kabát + ja + t, yielding kabátját.

In practice, kabátját appears in sentences where the coat is both possessed by a known person and acts as the object of the verb. Examples include: A férfi felvette a kabátját. (The man put on his coat.) Követtek a kabátját, amelyet a földön hagyott. (They followed his coat that he left on the floor.) The form thus conveys two layers of information: ownership by a specific subject and the definiteness of the coat as the object.

Hungarian also allows related forms for other persons, such as kabátom (my coat), kabátod (your coat), kabátja (his/her coat in a non-definite object position), and kabátunk, kabátotok, kabátjuk for we, you (plural), and they respectively. When emphasis on ownership is desired, possessive pronouns like saját kabátja can be used to stress “one’s own coat.”

Summary: Kabátját is a possessive definite-object construction in Hungarian, formed from kabát plus the third-person possessive suffix and the definite-object suffix. It is commonly used to indicate that a specific person owns the coat and that the coat is the definite object of the action.