megfosztottuk

Megfosztottuk is a Hungarian verb form meaning “we deprived someone of something.” It is the first-person plural past tense of megfosztani, which means to deprive, strip, or dispossess someone of a possession, right, or status. The verb is transitive and is typically used with a person as the affected party and with the affected thing expressed in a phrase such as valakitől or a direct object, for example a jogaitól.

Grammatical notes: Megfosztani is formed with the prefix meg- added to the root foszt. The form megfosztottuk is used for a past action carried out by “we.” The verb conjugates like other transitive Hungarian verbs and can appear in various past tense forms (megfosztottam, megfosztottad, megfosztotta, megfosztottuk, megfosztottátok, megfosztották) depending on the subject. The object of deprivation is commonly expressed with a phrase such as a jogaitól (“from his/her rights”) or with another noun phrase indicating what is taken away.

Examples:

- Megfosztottuk őt a jogaitól. (We deprived him of his rights.)

- A vezetés megfosztotta a dolgozókat a juttatásoktól. (The leadership deprived the workers of the benefits.)

See also: jogfosztás, a legal or political term referring to the deprivation of rights; fosztás as a related noun root meaning deprivation or stripping. The term megfosztottuk and its related forms are used in legal, political, and editorial Hungarian to describe actions of depriving or stripping someone of something.