No. 906 in Hungarian
tudták
"tudták" = "they knew"
In a sentence
A diákok már korábban tudták a választ.
The students already knew the answer before.
The word 'tudták' here is the past tense of 'tudni' (to know) in third person plural, indicating knowledge possessed by the students in the past.
Tegnap este még nem tudták, hogy mi történt.
Last night they still didn’t know what had happened.
'Tudták' is used again as the third person plural past form of 'tudni', highlighting the lack of knowledge earlier.
Nem tudták elmondani, mert siettek.
They couldn’t tell it because they were in a hurry.
In this sentence, 'tudták' is used as past ability in negative, expressing that they were unable to tell something because of being in a hurry.
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