küszöbbel

Küszöbbel is the instrumental case form of the Hungarian noun küszöb, which means threshold, border, or limit. As an instrumental form, küszöbbel is used to express the instrument or means by which an action is performed, or to indicate that something is defined by or operates with a threshold.

Form and usage: In Hungarian, instrumental forms attach to nouns to denote the means of an action. When a stem ends in a consonant, the instrumental suffix often appears as -bel/-vel, and küszöb ends with a consonant, yielding küszöbbel. The form signals that the threshold serves as a tool, criterion, or boundary in the described process.

Contexts: The term tends to occur in technical, scientific, or formal discourse, including fields such as architecture, measurement, statistics, physics, or psychology, where procedures or criteria are described in terms of a threshold. In everyday language, speakers may use other expressions to convey the same idea, such as referring to the threshold as a condition or parameter rather than using the instrumental form.

Example usage: A mérés a küszöbbel meghatározott érték felett ad eredményt. This illustrates a scenario where a threshold defines the value region relevant to the action being described.

See also: küszöb, Hungarian grammar, instrumental case.