-ary hypergroups are a generalization of Dörnte -ary groups and a generalization of hypergroups in the sense of Marty. In this paper, we investigate some properties of -ary hypergroups and (commutative) fundamental relations. We determine two families and of subsets of an -ary hypergroup such that two geometric spaces and are strongly transitive. We prove that in every -ary hypergroup, the fundamental relation and the commutative fundamental relation are strongly compatible equivalence relations.