Nyújtották

Nyújtották is a form of the Hungarian verb nyújtani, used as the past tense in the third-person plural. It denotes that a group of subjects completed the action in the past. The meaning of nyújtani can be physical (to stretch or extend) or figurative (to offer, provide, or hand over), so nyújtották can refer to different senses depending on context.

In Hungarian grammar, nyújtották appears when the subject is plural and the action is described as having happened previously. The exact interpretation—stretching, extending, offering, providing—depends on the surrounding words, particularly the direct object. For example, with a definite object, the sentence might describe something that was extended or handed over to someone else.

Common usage includes contexts such as:

- A karjaikat nyújtották a vendégek felé. (They extended their arms toward the guests.)

- A segítséget nyújtották a rászorulóknak. (They provided or offered help to the needy.)

The form is neutral and widely used in written and spoken Hungarian, including journalism, literature, and everyday speech, whenever a plural subject performed a completed action of offering, presenting, or extending something in the past. As with other Hungarian past tenses, the exact nuance can be clarified by the accompanying nouns or pronouns, which indicate the nature of what was stretched, extended, or offered.