döntöttünk

Döntöttünk is a Hungarian verb form meaning "we decided." It is the first-person plural past tense (the form used when a group has made a decision) of the verb dönt, which means to decide or determine. In context it can be translated as "we decided" or, depending on the context, "we have decided."

The form is built from the stem dönt- with the past tense suffix -öttünk, producing the orthographically distinctive döntöttünk. Hungarian past tense forms vary by person, with examples such as döntöttem (I decided), döntöttél (you decided), döntöttünk (we decided), döntöttek (they decided). The spelling includes a double t after the stem due to phonological rules of Hungarian.

Döntöttünk is commonly used to report group decisions in spoken and written Hungarian. It frequently appears with phrases like arról, hogy or a location or topic, for example: Döntöttünk a találkozó időpontjáról (We decided on the time of the meeting) or Döntöttünk arról, hogy elutazunk nyáron (We decided that we will travel in the summer). The construction signals that a collective decision has been reached and is presented as a completed action in the past.

Related forms center on the same verb, including decision-making in other persons and tenses (döntök, döntesz, dönt, döntöttem, döntöttetek, döntöttek), reflecting Hungarian’s robust system of conjugating perfective verbs in the past.