stádiumban

Stádiumban is a Hungarian locative form of the noun stádium, meaning “in a stage” or “in a phase.” The word stádium itself is a loanword from Latin stadium, with senses related to a period within a process, a phase of development, or, in modern usage, a particular level of progression such as in medical or biological contexts. The suffix -ban attaches to the noun to indicate location or state, yielding stádiumban for “in the stage” or “in that phase.” The form follows Hungarian vowel harmony, and is used with back vowels as in stádiumban.

In usage, stádiumban serves as an ordinary locative construction within phrases that describe the current stage of something. It is common in scientific, medical, and developmental language, as well as in more general description of processes. For example, phrases like az első stádiumban or a betegség a második stádiumban van illustrate how the term is used to specify which stage is being referred to.

Typical contexts include medicine, where disease progression is discussed in terms of stádiumok (stages), and biology or ecology, where growth or life-cycle phases are described. Beyond technical fields, stádiumban can appear in everyday language to convey that something is at a particular point in a process, such as a project, a plan, or a development trajectory.

Example sentences:

- A betegség a harmadik stádiumban van.

- A növény a virágzás stádiumában van.