rendían

Rendían is the third-person plural imperfect indicative form of the Spanish verb rendir. The verb rendir has several related senses, including to yield or produce a result, to surrender or submit, and to render or provide something (as in rendir cuentas). The imperfect tense here conveys past habitual action or an ongoing state, often used in narrative or descriptive contexts.

In usage, rendían can describe things that yielded results or produced in the past. For example: "Los cultivos rendían frutos abundantes" means the crops yielded abundant fruit. It can also express that groups or individuals did not yield to pressure, as in "Los defensores no rendían ante la presión." The phrase rendir cuentas is common in administrative or organizational settings, meaning to render or provide an accounting of activities and outcomes.

Rendían appears across registers of Spanish, from literary narration to journalism and everyday speech, where it helps frame actions or conditions as ongoing or habitual in the past. Etymology traces rendir to Latin reddere (to give back), passing through the Romance language developments that shaped modern Spanish verb forms.

See also: rendirse, rendimiento, rendido.