Questions & Answers about A vendég kezében van a kulcs.
Word by word:
- A – the (definite article, used before consonant)
- vendég – guest
- kezében – literally in his/her hand (more precisely: in the hand (that belongs to him/her))
- kéz – hand
- -e – 3rd‑person possessive suffix (his/her/its hand)
- -ben – inessive case ending (in, inside)
- van – is (3rd person singular of lenni – to be)
- a – the
- kulcs – key
So the structure is something like:
The guest hand-in is the key. → The key is in the guest’s hand.
Hungarian normally uses case endings instead of separate prepositions for many spatial relations.
- English: in the hand
- Hungarian: the noun kéz
- inessive suffix -ben → kézben = in (a) hand
In our sentence, the hand also has an owner (the guest), so we add a possessive suffix:
- kéz (hand)