pochopili

Pochopili is a past tense form used in Czech and Slovak to mean "they understood." It is the masculine plural past tense of the verb pochopit, which means to understand or to grasp in the sense of comprehending something. In these languages, pochopit is a perfective verb, indicating a completed act of understanding, and pochopili marks that action as having been performed by a group of people.

In Czech and Slovak grammar, pochopili functions as a standard third-person plural past tense form. It appears in narrative and reported speech when referring to a completed understanding by a plural subject. The form reflects agreement with the subject and is commonly used in everyday language, writing, and media.

The verb pochopit has related forms and related nouns in both languages. The corresponding noun for the act of understanding is pochopení in Czech and pochopenie in Slovak. Pochopili is often encountered in examples illustrating how past actions are expressed, such as a group realizing or comprehending information, a situation becoming clear to several people, or a decision following an understanding.

See also: pochopit, pochopení, pochopenie, understand. Note that pochopili is a specific grammatical form rather than a standalone concept, and its exact spelling and usage can vary slightly between Czech and Slovak texts depending on formality, register, and surrounding grammatical context.