szabadítottak

Szabadítottak is a Hungarian verb form. It is the third-person plural past tense, definite, passive voice of the verb "szabadítani." "Szabadítani" itself means to free, to release, to liberate, or to rescue. Therefore, "szabadítottak" translates to "they freed," "they released," "they liberated," or "they rescued" when referring to a specific, previously identified object or group. The past tense indicates an action that was completed in the past. The definite aspect signifies that the action was directed towards a known or specified recipient. The passive voice implies that the subject of the sentence is the one being acted upon, rather than performing the action. For example, in a sentence like "A foglyokat szabadítottak," it means "The prisoners were freed," with "szabadítottak" indicating the action performed by an unspecified group of people upon the prisoners. This grammatical construction is common in Hungarian to describe events where the agent performing the freeing or releasing is either implied, unknown, or unimportant to the narrative.