No. 226 in Hungarian
írták
"Írták" means "they wrote" in English.
In a sentence
A könyvet múlt héten írták meg.
The book was written last week.
Here 'írták' is used as a conjugated third-person plural form to express passive voice in past tense, indicating the action of writing performed by unspecified people.
Ők írták a levelet tegnap este.
They wrote the letter last night.
Here 'írták' is used as a third-person plural past-tense form of the verb 'write', describing a specific group of people performing the action of writing.
Írták, hogy a koncert elmarad.
They wrote that the concert is canceled.
In this sentence, 'írták' is a third-person plural past-tense form used to indicate that an unspecified group of people communicated information through writing.
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