szántam

Szántam is a Hungarian verb form meaning I plowed. It is the first-person singular simple past tense of the verb szántani, which means to plow or till the soil. In everyday use, szántam states that the speaker performed the act of plowing at a specific time in the past.

Usage and meaning

Szántam appears in narratives and descriptions of agricultural activity. It is used when the speaker is recounting a completed action, often with a direct object such as the field or land. For example: Eső után szántam a földet. The exact nuance can depend on context, as Hungarian past tenses can indicate a straightforward past event rather than a present perfect sense.

Related terms

The related noun szántás refers to the act of plowing, while szántó denotes a plow or plowman. The verb szántani belongs to the same semantic field and is the infinite form from which szántam is derived. These terms commonly appear in agricultural discourse, rural literature, and historical descriptions of farming.

Grammatical notes

Szántam is used with a subject pronoun expressing the first person singular. Other persons and tenses of szántani have corresponding forms (for example, szántasz, szántunk, szántotok, szántanak in the present; szántam, szántál, szántott, etc., in various past forms), but szántam specifically marks “I plowed” in the past.

In summary, szántam is the simple past form of the plow verb in Hungarian, commonly used to describe a completed farming action by the speaker.