csináltok

Csináltok is the second-person plural present tense form of the Hungarian verb csinál, meaning to do or to make. It is used when addressing multiple people in informal speech to indicate an action that you all are performing at the moment or generally do.

Formation and usage: In modern Hungarian, the present 2nd person plural ending attached to the verb stem csinál- yields csináltok. The form is common in everyday conversation and questions. For example, mit csináltok most? translates to What are you all doing right now? The form can also appear in statements about habitual actions among a group, such as ti csináltok ezt minden héten, meaning you all do this every week. The presence of csináltok signals direct address to multiple interlocutors.

Relationships to other forms: Csínál- forms vary by person and tense. For reference, the 1st person singular is csinálok (I do), the 2nd person singular is csinálsz (you do), the 3rd person singular is csinál (he/she does), the 1st person plural is csinálunk (we do), and the 3rd person plural is csinálnak (they do). The past tense forms for the second person plural differ and would use a different suffix, such as csináltatok or csináltátok, depending on dialect and nuance.

See also: Hungarian verbs, csinálni, Hungarian pronouns and verb conjugation, present tense in Hungarian.