útakat

útakat is a Hungarian grammatical form used to mark a noun as a definite direct object in the plural. It represents the definite accusative of the noun utak, which means roads or routes. The base plural form utak appears when referring to roads in a non-definite sense or simply in a generic plural. When the speaker wishes to indicate that the roads are a known or specific set, Hungarian adds a definite-direct-object suffix to the plural stem, yielding útakat. The suffix -at is one of several definite-object endings used with plural nouns, chosen according to vowel harmony; other nouns may take -et or -öt in similar contexts.

In practice, útakat occurs in sentences where the roads are the direct object and are definite. For example: Látom az útakat. I see the roads. Here the definite article az signals the specificity, and the suffix -at marks the noun as the definite plural direct object.

Notes on usage:

- útakat contrasts with a non-definite plural such as utak, which would occur without a definite direct object marking.

- The same morphological pattern applies to many Hungarian nouns: plural -ak/-ek/-ök plus the definite-object suffix -at/-et/-öt, depending on vowel harmony.

Summary:

útakat is the definite plural accusative form of út, used when referring to specific roads as the direct object of a sentence. It illustrates Hungarian’s system of combining pluralization with definite-object marking.