kérdése

Kérdése is a Hungarian noun form meaning “his/her/its/your question.” It is the singular possessive form of the base noun kérdés, which denotes an inquiry or matter requiring information. The form kérdése indicates that the question belongs to someone else or to the person addressed in a formal way (3rd person singular possessive or formal you).

Morphology and usage

Kérdés is a masculine-neuter inanimate noun with the usual Hungarian noun behavior. The possessive suffix -e marks ownership by a single possessor: ő (he/she/it) or Ön (formal you). Examples: Ez az ő kérdése. (This is his/her/its question.) A kérdése az volt, hogy mikor érkezik a vonat. (His/her question was when the train arrives.) The plural form would be kérdéseik for multiple possessors or kérdései for “their questions,” depending on the possessor.

Etymology

Kérdés derives from the verb kérni, “to ask,” via the nominalizing suffix -dés, forming a word for something asked or an inquiry. The possessive kérdése inherits the same meaning when the ownership is specified.

Usage notes

Kérdése is commonly used in written and spoken Hungarian to attribute a question to someone, distinguishing ownership while keeping the question itself as a noun. It contrasts with kérdés (the general term “a question”) and with forms like kérdését or kérdésed used to express different possessors or emphasis.

See also

kérdés, kérdezni, beszédhelyzet.