Erdhën

Erdhën is a standard Albanian verb form used to express that a group of subjects arrived in the past. It is the third-person plural past tense form of the verb erd-h, meaning to come or to arrive. In standard Albanian, erdhën marks a completed action by multiple subjects and is used in narrative and reportive contexts.

The verb erdh- appears in several related forms, reflecting person and number: erdha (I came), erdhe (you came), erdhi (he/she came), erdhëm (we came), erdhët (you came), erdhën (they came). Erdhen, with the specific suffix -ën, is thus the plural past tense form. This pattern is typical of Albanian verb conjugation, where endings signal person and number.

Examples of usage include: Ata erdhën në stacionin e trenit për ta marrë atë. They arrived at the train station to pick him up. The form erdhën is primarily used in past-tense narration, reporting events that involved multiple agents.

Erdhën is not a noun or a proper name; it is a grammatical form. In dialectal or stylistic variations, other tense forms of erdh- may be used, but erdhën remains the standard plural past form in modern Albanian.

See also: Albanian language, verb conjugation, past tense, erdha, erdhe, erdhi, erdhëm, erdhët.