tanítanak

Tanítanak is a Hungarian verb form meaning “they teach.” It is the third-person plural present indicative of the verb tanít (“to teach”). The form is built from the stem tanít- plus the present-tense suffix -anak, following standard Hungarian conjugation patterns for verbs ending in -ít.

In full, the present tense conjugation of tanít is: én tanítok, te tanítasz, ő tanít, mi tanítunk, ti tanítotok, ők tanítanak. The typical sentence structure in Hungarian is subject–verb–object, but word order is flexible for emphasis or style, which can place the verb before or after elements of the predicate.

Tanítanak is used when the subject performing the action is plural. It describes ongoing teaching activity or habitual instances, for example: A tanárok matematikát tanítanak a diákoknak. (The teachers teach mathematics to the students.) Ők az iskolában tanítanak. (They teach at the school.) The form can appear without an explicit subject when the context makes the subject clear.

Relation to other forms: tanítanak contrasts with tanítanak a past form tanítottak (they taught). Other present forms are tanítok, tanítasz, tanítunk, tanítotok, tanít, which align with different subjects. The verb is common in everyday speech, education-related discourse, and formal writing.