megállapodásnak

Megállapodásnak is a grammatical form of the Hungarian noun megállapodás, which means agreement or settlement. In linguistic terms, megállapodásnak is the dative singular form, used to indicate to or for the agreement, or to introduce phrases that relate to the agreement in a dative sense. The suffix -nak follows the vowel harmony of the stem, so after megállapodás (which ends with a back vowel), the form is megállapodásnak.

In ordinary usage megállapodásnak appears mainly in fixed expressions and legal or formal contexts. One common construction is megállapodásnak megfelelően, meaning in accordance with the agreement. Another possible usage is megállapodásnak értelmében, meaning in terms of or according to the agreement. Because Hungarian tends to express possessive relationships without a separate genitive marker, the possessive relation “the agreement’s …” is often rendered as a noun+noun combination (a megállapodás feltételei, the terms of the agreement) rather than a dative form, though megállapodásnak can still occur in certain syntactic positions as a dative phrase.

Etymology and morphology: megállapodás originates from the verbállapodni (to reach an agreement) with the prefixed form meg- and the noun-forming suffix -ás. The dative suffix -nak attaches to the stem to form megállapodásnak, signaling the indirect object or the beneficiary term in a sentence.

See also: Hungarian noun cases and suffixes, the dative construction, and common phrases using megállapodásnak in legal or formal Hungarian.