mondatban

Mondatban is the inessive form of the Hungarian noun mondat, meaning “in the sentence.” In Hungarian grammar, the inessive case marks a location inside something and is formed by adding the locative suffix -ban or -ben to the noun, depending on vowel harmony. Because the last vowel of mondat is a back vowel, the suffix takes the form -ban, yielding mondatban.

The form functions as a locative expression within a sentence. It is used to indicate that something exists or occurs inside a sentence, and it appears in linguistic descriptions, grammar explanations, and examples. A typical usage is to place the noun in the sentence and describe its role or position, for example: A szó a mondatban található, meaning “The word is located in the sentence.”

Related considerations include the wider system of Hungarian locative and directional suffixes. Mondatban contrasts with mondatba, the illative form meaning “into the sentence,” which uses the suffix -ba/-be to express motion into a location. Like other Hungarian case forms, mondatban demonstrates how suffixation and vowel harmony together encode spatial relations in a compact, morphologically rich way.

In short, mondatban is the standard locative form of mondat, used to specify something’s position inside a sentence within Hungarian grammar and discourse.