Cselekedett

Cselekedett is the third-person singular simple past tense form of the Hungarian verb cselekedni, meaning to act or to perform. It is used to indicate that a subject carried out an action in the past and is a finite verb form common in narrative, reports, and everyday speech.

Formation and usage: The past tense form is created by adding the appropriate past tense suffix to the verb stem cseleked-. In this case the form is cselekedett, corresponding to “he/she/it acted.” Other persons are expressed with distinct endings: én cselekedtem, te cselekedtél, mi cselekedtünk, ti cselekedtetek, ők cselekedtek. The verb cselekedni itself means to act, to perform an action, or to take action.

Relation to related forms: Cselekedett should be distinguished from the noun cselekedet, which means an act or deed. While cselekedett is a finite verb form conjugated for past time and third person, cselekedet is a non-finite noun referring to an action more abstractly. The same verb family also includes other conjugations for different persons and tenses, such as cselekedtem (I acted) or cselekednél (you would act), depending on mood and aspect.

Usage notes: Cselekedett is appropriate in formal and written Hungarian as well as in standard speech. Its meaning is straightforward: the subject performed an action at some past time, without specifying the action itself unless additional context is provided.