tettél

Tettél is the second-person singular past tense form of the Hungarian verb tenni, meaning to do or to put. It indicates that the action was completed in the past and that the subject addressing the listener performed it.

Grammatical notes: In Hungarian, tenni has a irregular past tense paradigm. The standard past forms are tettem (I did), tettél (you did), tett (he/she did), tettünk (we did), tettetek (you all did), tettek (they did). The form tettél is built from the past stem tett- combined with the second-person singular ending.

Usage: Tettél is used to ask about or describe actions carried out by the listener in the past. It appears in questions such as Mit tettél tegnap? (What did you do yesterday?) and in statements like Tettél valami hasznosat. (You did something useful.)

Nuances: The past tense form conveys completed action without specifying its duration. As with other Hungarian past forms, tettél integrates person and number into the verb ending, so explicit subject pronouns are often unnecessary in everyday speech.

Etymology: Tettél derives from the verb tenni, which carries sense of performing an action or placing something. The past forms are historically derived from a stem tett- with person-specific endings.

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