Megállított

Megállított is a Hungarian verb form meaning “stopped” or “has stopped.” It is the past participle of the transitive verb megállítani, which means to stop something or someone or to cause a halt. In ordinary speech, megállított also appears as a finite past tense form when the subject stops another person or object, as in A rendőr megállított egy autót (The police stopped a car).

As a past participle, megállított can function attributively to describe a noun, for example, a megállított autó (the stopped car). It can also appear in compound verb forms with different subjects, such as megállítottam (I stopped), megállította (he/she stopped), or megállították (they stopped). The form is built with the prefix meg- added to the root állít, together conveying the sense of bringing to a halt or causing to stop.

Usage notes: megállított is most common in contexts involving stopping a vehicle or halting a person’s movement, especially in police or security reports, traffic stops, or narrative descriptions. It can carry either a literal sense of physical stopping or, in some contexts, a more figurative sense of delaying or impediment, though the former is more typical.

Etymology: the word is formed from the prefix meg- (indicating completion or causation) and the verb stem állít (root meaning related to standing or placing), combined in megállít (to stop) and its past participle megállított. Related forms include megállít, megállítom, megállítottam, megállították, and megállította, which reflect standard Hungarian verb conjugation patterns.