Monitorovali

Monitorovali is a verb form used in Czech and Slovak. It denotes the past tense with a plural subject and translates to "they monitored" in English. The infinitive forms are monitorovat in Czech and monitorovať in Slovak. The word can be used in a wide range of contexts where systematic observation or data collection occurred in the past.

Etymology and formation: The verb monitorovat/monitorovať is derived from the noun monitor, a loanword likely introduced via English and influenced by other European languages. The suffix -ovat/-ovať is a productive way in both languages to create verbs from nouns and adjectives, meaning "to perform the action of the base word." The past tense ending -ovali is typical for masculine plural or mixed-gender subjects in past tense in both languages.

Usage: Monitorovali appears in science, journalism, IT, healthcare, and environmental monitoring to describe completed acts of watching, measuring, or supervising. It is common in reports and formal writing. The tense conveys that monitoring occurred at some point in the past, not necessarily that it was finished.

Examples:

Czech: Výzkumníci monitorovali hladiny vody.

Slovak: Výskumníci monitorovali hladiny vody.