súlyú

Súlyú (pronounced approximately /ˈʃuːjuː/) is a Hungarian adjective formed from the noun súly, meaning "weight", combined with the adjectival suffix -ú/-ű. It is used both in literal contexts to describe mass and in figurative contexts to indicate importance or significance.

In literal usage súlyú often appears in constructions that specify an object's mass, for example "10 gramm súlyú" ("weighing 10 grams"). This form is more formal than the corresponding -os/-es adjective (e.g., grammos) and is common in technical, scientific, and administrative language. In everyday speech words like nehéz or súlyos are more frequently used when describing heaviness.

Figuratively, súlyú characterizes abstract matters as weighty or consequential. Phrases such as nagy súlyú döntés or nagy súlyú kérdés convey that a decision or question carries substantial importance or impact, similar to English "weighty" or "significant". Synonyms in this sense include fontos and jelentős; antonyms include jelentéktelen or felületes.

Grammatically súlyú behaves as a regular adjective in Hungarian and agrees with the noun it modifies in typical syntactic ways (position before the noun, compatibility with comparative and superlative constructions via more general adjectival strategies). Its formation reflects a productive pattern in Hungarian for creating adjectives that mean "having [noun]" or "characterized by [noun]."