Tartalmazta

Tartalmazta is a Hungarian verb form meaning contained or included. It is the simple past (preterite) third-person singular form of the infinitive tartalmazni, which means to contain or to include. The corresponding present tense form is tartalmaz, used for “he/she/it contains.” The form tartalmazta is used when describing something that a subject contained at a past time, without specifying ongoing action.

Morphology and usage notes:

Tartalmazta is a regular past tense inflection in the -ta/-te suffix family, with the ending -ta indicating third-person singular in the past. Other related forms include tartalmaztam (I contained), tartalmaztál (you contained), tartalmazták (they contained), and tartalmaztuk (we contained). In typical prose, the subject is often omitted when clear from context.

Semantic range:

The verb tartalmaz means to contain, to include, or to comprise. Tartalmazta specifically marks a completed past action of containing. It can be used in a wide range of contexts, including descriptive writing, reports, descriptions of documents, packages, or datasets, and legal or technical texts where a past content must be stated.

Examples:

- A levél tartalmazta a dokumentumokat. (The letter contained the documents.)

- A doboz tartalmazta a ajándékokat. (The box contained the presents.)

- A szerződés ezt a záradékot tartalmazta tartalmazta mindvégig. (The contract contained this clause throughout.)

Etymology:

Tartalmazni stems from the Hungarian root for content-containing concepts, with the -alja-/-ol- morphology typical for forming verbs meaning “to contain” and the infinitive ending -ni. Tartalmazta is the corresponding past tense form.