felelt

Felelt is the simple past tense form of the Hungarian verb felelni, which means to answer or to respond. The infinitive form is felelni, and felelt is used with a third-person singular subject to describe an action completed in the past, typically an instance of giving an answer to a question or a prompt.

In Hungarian, felelni is used in contexts where a question or prompt is addressed directly to someone, and the person provides a reply. The past tense form felelt generally indicates that the answering occurred at a specific time in the past, such as in classroom dialogue, examinations, or Q&A settings. Other persons in the past tense have corresponding forms, for example feleltem (I answered), feleltél (you answered), feleltünk (we answered), feleltetek (you all answered), feleltek (they answered).

Usage and nuance: felel is often used for direct responses to questions, while a synonym like válaszol can be used for more general or ongoing answering. Felelti may appear in reports, narratives, or descriptions of events where a concise, factual statement about a past reply is required.

See also: válaszol, válasz, kérdés. Etymologically, felelni is an older Hungarian verb rooted in the language’s system of expressing responses to inquiries.