figyelték

Figyelték is a Hungarian verb form that corresponds to the English “they watched” or “they were watching.” It is the third-person plural past tense of the verb figyelni, which means to watch, observe, or pay attention. The form expresses that a group carried out the action of watching in the past, and it can take various objects or complements depending on the sentence.

In usage, figyelték appears in narrative and reported contexts to indicate past monitoring or attention by multiple actors. It can take a direct object, as in a sentence about watching a place, a situation, or a recording, for example: A rendőrség figyelte az utcát (The police watched the street). Figyelték a felvételt (They watched the recording). It may also appear with clauses that describe observing what happened or what was said, such as Figyelték, hogy mi történik (They watched to see what happens).

Related forms and terms include figyelni (to watch, to pay attention), as well as nouns derived from attention and watching, such as figyelem (attention) and figyelés (watching/monitoring). The form figyelték is a standard past-tense construction in Hungarian and is common in news reports, literature, and everyday speech when describing actions carried out by multiple people in the past.

See also: figyel, figyelés, figyelem.