Leszedték

Leszedték is a Hungarian verb form that denotes a completed action carried out by a plural subject. It is the past indefinite tense of the verb leszedni, meaning to remove, take down, harvest, or collect something from a surface or location. The form is used when the subject performing the action is they, or when the actor is unspecified, as in news reports or narrative descriptions.

Morphology and etymology: leszedték is built from the verb szedni (to pick, gather) with the prefix le- indicating separation or removal. The past tense suffix -t is added, followed by the personal ending -ék, which marks third-person plural. The resulting form signals that multiple agents performed the action in the past.

Usage: The term covers several senses, including removing items from a surface (such as taking posters off a wall), harvesting or picking crops from plants, and more figurative uses of “taking down” or “removing” in a non-larmful sense. It is common in descriptive prose, journalism, and everyday speech.

Examples:

- A plakátokat leszedték a falról. They took down the posters from the wall.

- Leszedték az almát a fákról. They harvested/picked the apples from the trees.

See also: leszedni (to remove, to take down), szedni (to pick, to gather). The form leszedték appears in neutral, descriptive contexts and is one of several past tense forms of leszedni.