hívtam

Hívtam is the first-person singular past indicative form of the Hungarian verb hív, meaning "to call" or "to invite." Morphologically it is composed of the verb root hív, the past suffix -t (forming the past stem hívt-), and the personal ending -am, yielding hívtam ("I called" / "I invited"). Pronunciation in standard Hungarian is approximately [ˈhiːvtɒm].

Functionally, hívtam is a finite verb form used to report completed actions in the past: telephoning someone (Fel hívtam Pétert — I called Peter), inviting (Meghívtam őt a rendezvényre — I invited him/her to the event; note the prefix meg- changes the meaning to "invite"), calling by name or summoning. Negation and interrogation follow regular Hungarian patterns (nem hívtam — "I did not call"; Hívtam? — "Did I call?").

As part of Hungarian's agglutinative morphology, hívtam encodes both tense and person within suffixes rather than using auxiliary verbs. Related forms include other past-person conjugations (hívtál, hívtunk, hívtak), present-tense forms (hívok, hívsz, hív), and derived nouns and verbs such as hívás (call), felhív (to call up), and meghív (to invite). The form is common in everyday speech and formal writing when describing past, completed actions.