tanítottak

Tanítottak is a Hungarian verb form derived from tanít (to teach). It is the past tense, third-person plural, of the verb in the active voice, and it translates most directly as “they taught.” It is used to describe a completed teaching action carried out by a plural subject.

Form and usage notes: The form tanítottak is created by adding the past tense plural suffix -tak to the stem tanít-. Because the stem ends in a consonant, the combination yields a geminated t in the written form. The corresponding singular past tense is tanított (he/she taught). In ordinary narration, tanítottak specifies who performed the teaching when the subject is plural; the object of teaching may be explicit or understood from context.

Examples: A tanítók tanítottak bennünket olvasni. Ebben a leckében a tanítók alaposan tanítottak minket a grammatikára. These sentences illustrate how tanítottak conveys that a group taught others in the past, often with a direct or indirect object.

See also: related verbs and concepts in Hungarian include tanítás (teaching), tanító (teacher), and tanulás (learning).