kiváltják

Kiváltják is the present-tense, third-person plural form of the Hungarian verb kiváltani. The base meaning of kiváltani is to trigger, provoke, cause to occur, or elicit a response. The form kiváltják is used when multiple subjects perform the triggering action, translating roughly to “they trigger” or “they provoke.”

In usage, kiváltani denotes initiating a subsequent event or reaction by acting as a trigger. It is common in technical, legal, political, and everyday contexts. Examples include alarms being triggered by sensors, reactions being triggered by a certain stimulus, or policy changes triggering protests. The nuance is that the action comes from a cause or mechanism and leads to measurable effects, rather than merely describing a general cause.

Typical contexts include: systems and machinery (a fault can trigger an alert), social or political dynamics (new regulations trigger public debate), and scientific discussions (a stimulus triggers a response). Related forms include kiváltani in other persons and tenses (én kiváltom, ők kiváltják), and the attributive noun kiváltó, as in kiváltó ok meaning “triggering cause” or “precipitating factor.”

Grammatical note: kiváltják is the plural present indicative. The verb also forms past tense as kiváltottak (they triggered) and other conjugations consistent with the verb kiváltani. The term is widely understood in Hungarian language usage and appears in news, technical writing, and formal discourse.