reményeket

Reményeket is the definite plural accusative form of the Hungarian noun remény, which means hope, expectation, or wish regarding a future outcome. The base noun remény appears in various contexts to describe a belief that something desired might happen. When the speaker or writer refers to a specific, identifiable set of hopes, the plural form reményeket is used as the direct object of a verb.

In Hungarian, the definite object form signals that the object is known to the listener or has been previously mentioned. Therefore reményeket marks that the hopes being discussed are particular rather than general or indefinite. This form commonly occurs in political, social, or literary texts, and in everyday speech when speakers talk about concrete hopes tied to a situation or event.

Examples:

- A beszéd felkeltette a reményeket a közönségben. (The speech awakened the hopes in the audience.)

- A vezetők felidézték a reményeket. (The leaders recalled the hopes.)

- A politikus reményeket támasztott a választókban. (The politician stirred/placed hopes in the voters.)

reményeket can also appear with prepositional phrases that indicate the target or domain of the hopes, such as reményeket a jövő felé vagy reményeket egy közös cél felé. The plural form is distinct from the nominative remények, which would serve as the subject of a sentence.

See also: remény, reményteljes, reménykedés.