tettek

Tettek is a Hungarian verb form. It is the third-person plural past tense of the verb tenni, which means to put, to place, or more generally to do. In standard usage, tettek functions as a finite verb form indicating that a plural subject carried out an action in the past.

In full conjugation, the past tense forms of tenni are: én tettem, te tettél, ő tett, mi tettünk, ti tettetek, ők tettek. The form tettek appears specifically as the past tense for they, and it commonly combines with objects to describe past placing or performing actions. For example, in sentences such as “Ők tettek fel egy kérdést” (They posed a question) and “A könyvet az asztalra tették” (They placed the book on the table), tettek serves as the core verb, with surrounding words specifying the action and objects.

Phonology and orthography are straightforward in Hungarian: tettek is written with double t, reflecting standard productive conjugation of tenni. It is not a stand-alone noun or independent loanword; rather, it is a grammatical form that appears as part of a verb.

See also: tenni, Hungarian verb conjugation, past tense in Hungarian.