magazinban

Magazinban is the locative form of the Hungarian noun magazin, meaning “in the magazine.” In Hungarian, location is expressed by adding a suffix to the noun, with -ban or -ben as the locative variant. For magazin, the usual form appears as magazinban, indicating that something is inside or within a magazine publication.

The term is commonly used to refer to location within a magazine as a publication. For example, it is natural to say that an article appeared in the magazine (A cikk a magazinban jelent meg) or that a photo can be found inside the magazine (A kép a magazinban található). The phrase can also describe content contained within a specific issue or section of a periodical, such as an essay in a literary magazine (a szépirodalmi magazinban).

Etymology and usage: magazin is a loanword in Hungarian, borrowed from German Magazin or French magasin, originally denoting a place of storage or a store. In Hungarian, it has acquired the meaning of a periodical publication. The locative form magazinban follows standard Hungarian suffixation rules, with the suffix variation -ban chosen to agree with the stem in vowel harmony.

See also: Hungarian noun suffixes, locative case, examples of -ban/-ben usage, and loanwords in Hungarian.