témáinak

Témáinak is a Hungarian grammatical form that translates roughly as "their themes" in English. It is the plural possessive form built from téma (theme) and the possessive suffixes used to indicate ownership by a plural subject. In use, témáinak appears in phrases where the themes belong to a group, such as a group of authors or a body of works. For example, az írók témáinak sokfélesége means "the diversity of the writers' themes." Similarly, a phrase like A regénycsokor témáinak ismétlődése can be understood as "the recurrence of the themes across the collection of novels."

Grammatically, témáinak marks possession by a plural subject and typically appears in a genitive-like role within a noun phrase. The form demonstrates Hungarian possessive morphology that modifies the head noun to show ownership by multiple agents. Because téma is a neuter noun of the first declension in modern usage, its plural possessive form follows standard patterns for possessive suffixes in Hungarian, resulting in témai, témáinak, or related variants depending on the surrounding case and definiteness.

In practice, témáinak is most common in literary criticism, scholarly writing, and analyses that discuss motif, subject matter, or thematic concerns across several works or authors. It allows writers to attribute shared or comparative themes to a collective rather than to an individual author, enabling precise discussion of thematic scope and variation.

See also: téma, témák, thematic analysis, Hungarian possessive morphology.