tulajdonítani

Tulajdonítani is a Hungarian verb with two main senses. The first and most common meaning is to own or possess something, i.e., to hold legal ownership over a thing or property. It is used when describing who holds ownership rights or when transferring those rights through sale, gift, or other legal acts. The second sense is more figurative and means to attribute ownership or responsibility to someone, or to credit someone with a certain property or achievement, especially in formal or evaluative writing. In this sense, tulajdonítani is often found in phrases like valakinek tulajdonítják vagy tulajdonítása, indicating that something is to be credited to or assigned to a person or entity.

In usage, tulajdonítani is a transitive verb and typically requires a direct object for the thing being owned or the entity receiving the ownership. Common collocations include tulajdonjog (ownership right), tulajdonos (owner), and tulajdonlás (possession). The verb is used in legal, administrative, and economic language as well as in everyday speech when clarifying who possesses property.

Etymology: The verb is formed from the noun tulajdon, meaning ownership, with the suffix -ítani, which creates a verb indicating the act of making something be owned by someone or of attributing ownership.

See also: tulajdon, tulajdonos, tulajdonjog.