szóformája

Szóformája is a Hungarian grammatical term referring to the inflected form of a word. In Hungarian, words undergo changes in their endings to indicate grammatical function, such as case, number, tense, and person. These changes are crucial for conveying meaning and constructing grammatically correct sentences. For example, the noun "ház" (house) can take various szóformái depending on its role in a sentence: "házban" (in the house), "házból" (from the house), "házak" (houses), "házamat" (my house), and so on. Similarly, verbs have numerous szóformái to reflect different tenses, moods, and subject-verb agreement. The rich inflectional system of Hungarian means that a single root word can have dozens, even hundreds, of different szóformái. Understanding these inflected forms is fundamental to comprehending and producing correct Hungarian. The concept of szóformája encompasses all the variations a word can take through affixation, which is a central feature of the agglutinative nature of the Hungarian language.