ellos inventaron

invented

→ inventar
invent invent + aron 3rd-person plural past tense
verb · third plural · past indicative Rare #39,704
invented third-person plural (they) in the simple past (pretérito).
SP: Inventaron una historia para explicar lo que pasó.
EN: They invented a story to explain what happened.
Conjugation of inventar
Indicative past
SingularPlural
First inventé —
Second inventaste —
Third inventó inventaron

Mira lo que inventaron.

Look what they invented.

El papel lo inventaron los chinos.

Paper was invented by the Chinese.

Pero, esto lo inventaron.

But they made this up.

— La infancia de Iván (1962)

Entonces, todos estamos de acuerdo en que los indios inventaron el cero.

So, we all agree that the Indians invented zero.

— Super 30 (2019)

Probablemente fueron ellos los que lo inventaron.

They were probably the ones who invented it.

Se inventaron que había matado a un blanco y que había violado a su mujer.

They made up that I had killed a white man and raped his wife.

— Los pecadores (2025)