pillanatát

Pillanatát is a form of the Hungarian noun pillanat, meaning "moment." It is created by attaching the third-person possessive suffix -a/-e to pillanat and then adding the definite direct-object suffix -t, yielding pillanatát. The form marks a moment that belongs to a third person and is treated as a definite object in the clause.

Morphology and meaning: The -át ending is a composite suffix used in Hungarian to express possession by a third person and to mark the noun as a definite object. The resulting form is used when the speaker refers to a specific, possessed moment rather than a general sense of “a moment.”

Usage: Pillanatát occurs primarily in formal or literary writing, where fused possessive-definite forms are common. In everyday speech, speakers typically avoid this construction and instead use phrases such as az ő pillanata or restructure the sentence to place pillanat in a different case or construction.

English rendering and nuance: Depending on context, pillanatát can be translated as "its moment" or as "the moment of it." The exact sense is determined by the surrounding sentence and discourse, and the form often signals a precise, context-bound moment rather than a general concept of time.

See also: Pillanat, Definite direct object (Hungarian grammar), Possessive suffixes in Hungarian.