látunk

Látunk is the present tense, first-person plural form of the Hungarian verb látni, meaning "to see." It is used to express that the speaker and at least one other person perceive something with their eyes in real time. As a transitive verb, látunk normally takes a direct object, such as a noun phrase in the accusative: Látunk egy madarat (We see a bird). It can also occur with negation: Nem látunk semmit (We don’t see anything).

In addition to literal perception, látunk can have figurative uses related to understanding or perceiving more broadly. For example, látni can mean to understand the gist of a situation, or to recognise an important detail, as in látni a problémát (to see/understand the problem) or látni a lényeget (to see the essence).

Conjugation notes and related forms are part of the broader Hungarian verb rendszer for látni. The infinitive is látni, while the present tense form for the first-person plural is látunk. Other subject–tense forms exist for different persons and tenses, and they share the same root lát-.

Etymology and related terms: látni is the base verb meaning "to see," and látás denotes sight or vision. The word is common in everyday Hungarian and appears in written language as well, in both literal descriptions and metaphorical expressions.

See also: látás, látni.