útjainak

útjainak is a Hungarian noun form that appears in contexts involving possession and reference to multiple roads. It is built from the noun út (road) and marks ownership or association with a plural or oblique relation, typically translating to phrases like “of its roads” or “to its roads” depending on the surrounding case. Because Hungarian grammar uses suffix chains to encode possession and case, the exact gloss of útjainak depends on the syntactic role in the sentence and the possessor involved (his/her/its/your/their).

Morphology and usage

The form contains the base út plus a possessive element and an additional ending that signals a plural or oblique case. In practice, útjainak most often appears when referring to roads belonging to a city, country, organization, or another entity, and it can function in genitive/possessive or dative-like constructions. Related forms include útja (its road), útjaink (our roads), útjaitok (your roads), and útjaik (their roads). The exact interpretation—whether it denotes possession, a source, or an indirect object—depends on the sentence structure and the governing case.

Examples

Az útjainak állapota gyorsan romlik. (The condition of its roads is deteriorating.)

Az ország útjainak felújítása sokba kerül. (The renovation of the country’s roads costs a lot.)

A város útjainak karbantartását a költségvetés vállalja. (The maintenance of the city’s roads is covered by the budget.)

See also

Hungarian possessive suffixes, -ja/-je, and other inflectional forms for út.