kutyában

Kutyában is a Hungarian locative form, specifically the inessive case of the noun kutya (dog). It is used to express that something is located inside the dog or within a space understood as the dog’s interior. As part of the Hungarian case system, the inessive is formed by attaching the suffix -ban or -ben to the noun; with kutya the result is kutyában, reflecting standard vowel harmony and word-formation patterns in Hungarian.

Usage and meaning

The inessive indicates location inside a space or container. When applied to the noun kutya, kutyában denotes being inside the dog, such as inside the dog’s body or its internal spaces, and can appear in medical, veterinary, or descriptive contexts. It can also occur in literary or hypothetical statements to discuss interior location related to a dog. In everyday speech, more general locative expressions (such as a kutyától vagy a kutya testének belsejében) may be preferred, but kutyában remains a grammatically valid form for precise interior-location reference.

Examples

A seb a kutyában van. (The wound is inside the dog.)

Morphology note

Kutyában illustrates how Hungarian attaches the inessive suffix to a noun ending in a vowel, with the form adapting to vowel harmony rules. The form is predictable from the underlying pattern of -ban/-ben in Hungarian, and kutya yields kutyában in typical usage.

See also

Kutya belseje, a related expression for interior spaces in dog-related contexts.