futottak

Futottak is a Hungarian verb form that represents the third-person plural past tense of the verb fut, which means to run. It is used to describe a completed action of running by multiple subjects in the past, for example in narrative or descriptive contexts.

Morphology and formation: The past tense is formed by adding the suffix -ott- to the verb stem fut-, and then attaching the appropriate personal ending. For the third-person plural, this yields futottak. The sequence results in a double t (fut → futt- in the past suffix) which is a regular phonological pattern in Hungarian.

Conjugation context: The same verb family includes other persons and numbers in the past tense, such as futottam (I ran), futottál (you ran, singular informal), futott (he/she/it ran), futottunk (we ran), and futottatok (you all ran). Thus futottak specifically marks “they ran.”

Usage notes: Futottak appears in a wide range of texts, including sports reports, historical narratives, and everyday storytelling, whenever the speaker refers to a group that performed running in the past. Like other past tense forms, its interpretation can be influenced by aspect and surrounding context, but it primarily signals a completed action by multiple subjects.

Example: Ők futottak a parkban. They ran in the park.