Dolgoztam

Dolgoztam is a Hungarian verb form meaning “I worked.” It is the first-person singular past tense (the simple past) of the verb dolgozni, which means to work. In Hungarian, past tense forms are built by adding person-specific suffixes to the verb stem; for dolgozni, the 1st person singular form is -tam, yielding dolgoztam. Other persons are dolgoztál (you worked), dolgozott (he/she/it worked), dolgoztunk (we worked), dolgoztatok (you plural worked), and dolgoztak (they worked).

Usage of dolgoztam centers on completed actions in the past. It is common in narrative and descriptive contexts to state what someone did at a given time or over a period. It can appear with time expressions such as tegnap, múltkor, vagy hét közben. The form also participates in conditional and past conditional constructions, for example dolgoztam volna (“I would have worked”). Negation is formed with nem dolgoztam (“I did not work”).

Pronunciation is typically rendered as [ˈdolɡoztɒm]. The verb is the finite past tense form of dolgozni, whose infinitive is used for present and future discussions.

Etymology and related forms: dolgozni derives from a native Hungarian root meaning work or task, with the infinitive suffix -ni. Related forms include dolgozik (he/she works), dolgozom (I work, present), and the past participle dolgozott. The past tense forms share the same stem with the present forms, differing only by suffixes.

Examples:

- Tegnap egész nap dolgoztam a projekten. (Yesterday I worked on the project all day.)

- A héten már dolgoztam többet is. (This week I have worked more, too.)

See also: dolgozni (to work); other conjugations such as dolgozik, dolgozom, and the past participle dolgozott.