velük

Velük is a Hungarian pronoun meaning “with them.” It is the instrumental case form of the third-person plural personal pronoun ők, used to indicate accompaniment or association in relation to actions or situations.

The form velük is built from the preposition vel meaning “with” combined with the third-person plural suffix -ük, resulting in a single word that follows the verb or prepositional phrase it governs. It functions similarly to other instrumental forms in Hungarian, such as velem (with me), veled (with you), vele (with him/her), velünk (with us), and veletek (with you, plural). In usage, velük appears after verbs to express doing something together with a group: for example, Beszéltem velük (I spoke with them) and Sétáltam velük a parkban (I walked with them in the park).

Etymology and morphology are straightforward within Hungarian’s system of personal pronouns and postpositions. Velük contrasts with the singular forms vele (with him/her) and the various first- and second-person combinations, illustrating how Hungarian encodes social and instrumental relationships through distinct clitic-like forms.

In contemporary Hungarian, velük is common in everyday speech and writing when specifying that a speaker interacted or acted in conjunction with others. It can appear in a range of registers, from informal conversation to more formal narration, always retaining a neutral, descriptive tone appropriate for encyclopedic use.