virágban

Virágban is the inessive case form of the Hungarian noun virág, meaning "flower." It marks location inside or within a flower and is used without a separate preposition to express phrases like "in the flower" or "inside a flower." The form is created by adding the suffix -ban to virág, with vowel harmony determining the ending.

In use, virágban indicates that something is located inside a flower. It can appear in simple clauses or descriptive contexts, often with a definite article or the indefinite determiner egy: for example, A méhecske a virágban van ("The bee is in the flower") or Egy bogár a virágban bújik meg ("A beetle hides inside the flower").

Grammatical note: Hungary’s locative/essive inflection uses -ban (for back vowels) or -ben (for front vowels). Since virág ends with a back vowel, the correct form is virágban. The word functions without a preposition in standard Hungarian syntax, aligning with other noun phrases in the inessive.

See also: Hungarian grammar, inessive case, locational cases.