Öntöttük

Öntöttük is the first-person plural past tense form of the Hungarian verb önteni, meaning to pour. It indicates that the action of pouring was completed in the past and is performed by “we.” The form is used when the subject is a group including the speaker and listeners or others.

Morphology and usage: The verb stem is önt-, derived from önteni. In the past tense, the form is built with the suffix -ött (or -ött) and the personal ending -ük, yielding öntöttük for “we poured.” This pattern follows standard Hungarian past tense conjugation. The meaning remains straightforward: the act of pouring something, typically a liquid, into or onto a target.

Examples:

- A tejet a kávéba öntöttük. (We poured the milk into the coffee.)

- A maradék vizet kiöntöttük a mosogatóba. (We poured out the remaining water into the sink.)

Notes and related forms: Önteni has several related conjugations for different subjects, such as öntöm (I pour), öntötted (you poured), öntötte (he/she poured), and öntöttük (we poured). The verb can take prefixes to form phrasal verbs, for example kiönteni meaning to pour out or spill, and ráönteni meaning to pour onto. In compound nouns and adjectives, the past participle form öntött appears in contexts such as öntöttvas (cast iron), where the sense of “poured” is part of a material designation.

See also: önteni, öntés, kiöntés, öntöttvas.