értelemüket

értelemüket is a Hungarian inflected form that can be read as “their sense” or “their intelligence” when treated as a definite object in a clause. It is formed from értelem, meaning sense or intelligence, together with the third-person plural possessive suffix -ük and the definite direct-object suffix -et, producing a single word. The construction illustrates how Hungarian can combine possessive and definite-object suffixes on a noun, with vowel harmony shaping the final spelling.

In standard contemporary usage, értelemüket as a common lexical item is rare. The fully inflected form tends to appear in linguistic descriptions, grammatical exercises, or older literary texts that showcase affix stacking. In everyday speech, speakers typically express the idea with separate or rephrased constructions rather than relying on this highly inflected compound.

Usage notes: értelemüket operates as a noun phrase within a sentence, functioning as the direct object of a verb. Its appearance can highlight the culmination of cognitive resources (sense or intelligence) possessed by a subject. When encountered, it is often in contexts that emphasize form and structure of Hungarian morphology rather than in casual prose.

See also: Hungarian grammar, noun inflection, értelem.