Hallottunk

Hallottunk is the first-person plural past tense form of the Hungarian verb hallani, which means to hear. It translates to "we heard" and is used to indicate that the speaker and others heard something in the past. As with other Hungarian past tense forms, hallottunk appears in ordinary statements, reports, or narratives describing past events involving hearing or learning of something.

Morphology and usage: The base verb hallani belongs to the common class of Hungarian -ni verbs. The past tense is formed by adding the appropriate personal suffix to the past-stem hallott. For the first person plural, the form is hallottunk. This structure is shared with other persons (hallottam for I heard, hallottál for you heard, hallotta/ hallották for he/she/they heard, etc.). Hallottunk can be followed by direct objects, clauses, or prepositional phrases to specify what was heard.

Examples:

- Hallottunk egy hangot az erdőben. (We heard a sound in the forest.)

- Hallottunk már a hírről. (We have heard about the news / We heard about the news.)

Notes: Hallani is a basic, frequently used verb in Hungarian, and hallottunk is a common way to recount past auditory experiences or information received. The form is entirely regular within the Hungarian past-tense conjugation system for this verb class, and it does not require auxiliary verbs in simple past constructions.

See also: Hungarian grammar, Verb conjugation, Past tense in Hungarian, Hallani.