konjugál

Konjugál is a Hungarian verb meaning to conjugate, i.e., to inflect a verb to reflect properties such as person, number, tense, mood, voice, and aspect. In Hungarian grammar, verbs are conjugated to indicate who is performing the action and when. A typical present-tense conjugation of the verb beszél (to speak) is: én beszélek, te beszélsz, ő beszél, mi beszélünk, ti beszéltek, ők beszélnek. Regular verbs follow predictable patterns, while irregular verbs require memorization of their special forms. Conjugation also produces forms for the conditional, future, and imperative, as well as participles used for compound tenses and adjectival phrases.

In other domains, konjugáció-related terms describe analogous processes or concepts. In biology, konjugáció refers to the genetic transfer between bacteria through a conjugation process, enabling horizontal gene exchange. In chemistry and materials science, konjugált kötés or konjugált rendszer describes systems with alternating single and double bonds and delocalized electrons; the noun forms are more common, but the verb konjugál can appear in technical contexts to denote the act of joining or forming conjugated structures. The term can also appear in linguistics and philology to describe the full set of inflected forms of a verb.

Related forms include konjugáció (the noun for conjugation), konjugált (conjugated, adjective or past participle), and konjugáló (conjugating, present participle). The concept is central to language instruction and to scientific terminology, where precise reference to verb forms or conjugation processes is required.