fennmaradtam

Fennmaradtam is the first-person singular past tense form of the Hungarian verb fennmaradni, which means to remain, stay behind, or endure. As a finite verb form, fennmaradtam conveys that the speaker remained in a place or continued to exist through a period or event.

Grammatical notes: fennmaradtam combines the root fennmarad- with the suffix -tam to indicate the first-person singular past definite (a past tense form used in predicative statements and in contexts with definite direct reference). The construction is used without an explicit subject pronoun in normal prose, because the ending encodes the subject.

Usage and nuance: the word is used in narrative or descriptive sentences to express that the speaker stayed in a location, or persisted through a situation. It can carry senses of physical staying behind or metaphorical persistence, depending on context. It is a standard, grammatical past tense form and appears in speech and writing, though it is most common in first-person statements about past events.

Examples:

- Egész éjjel fennmaradtam a szobában. (I stayed in the room all night.)

- A vihar után fennmaradtam a kikötőben, amikor mindenki mást elsodort a menekülő út. (I remained at the harbor after the storm, while others left.)

Relation: fennmaradtam is related to fennmaradni (the infinitive) and to other conjugated forms such as fennmaradok (I remain) or fennmaradtál (you remained), which share the same semantic core.

See also: fennmaradni, fennmaradók, Hungarian verb conjugation.