No. 796 in Hungarian
melyik
"Which"
In a sentence
Melyik könyvet olvastad el múlt héten?
Which book did you read last week?
Here, 'melyik' is used as an interrogative determiner to ask about a specific choice among a group.
Nem tudom, melyik útra kellene lépnünk.
I don't know which road we should take.
In this case, 'melyik' is embedded in a subordinate clause, introducing an indirect question about selection.
Ez melyik országból származik?
Which country is this from?
Here, 'melyik' is used to specify or identify one nation from a group of possible countries, acting as an interrogative identifier.
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