Hungarian

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Etymology

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From Latin confirmare.[1] With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkoɱfirmaːl]
  • Hyphenation: kon‧fir‧mál
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Verb

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konfirmál

  1. (intransitive, Protestantism) to get confirmed (to receive the sacrament of confirmation)
  2. (transitive, Protestantism) to confirm (to administer the sacrament of confirmation on someone)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Tótfalusi, István. Idegenszó-tár: Idegen szavak értelmező és etimológiai szótára (’A Storehouse of Foreign Words: an explanatory and etymological dictionary of foreign words’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2005. →ISBN

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