fennmaradtok

Fennmaradtok is a present indicative form of the Hungarian verb fennmaradni, meaning to remain, persist, or stay. As a second-person plural form, it is used when addressing multiple people and translating roughly to “you (plural) remain.”

Morphology and usage Context: The form fennmaradotok is built from the verb stem fennmarad- combined with the present tense ending -tok for the second person plural. It corresponds to other present-tense forms such as én fennmaradok (I remain) or ti fennmaradtok (you remain). Hungarian verbs also have a past tense corresponding form, for example fennmaradtatok (you remained).

Meaning and scope: fennmaradni can describe physical staying in a location as well as figurative persistence, survival, or continuity. The present indicative fennmaradtok is commonly used in everyday speech to indicate that a group continues to stay in a place, endures a situation, or persists in a situation.

Examples: Ti fennmaradtok a helyszínen. (You remain at the scene.) A közösség fennmaradotok a nehéz időszakokban. (You persist as a community through difficult times.)

Etymology and related forms: fennmarad- derives from fenn- (a prefix meaning “up,” “over,” or indicating continuation) plus marad- (to stay, remain). The base verb fennmaradni forms various tenses and moods, with ti fennmaradtok being the present tense plural form.

See also: fennmaradni, Hungarian verb conjugation, Hungarian grammar.