Hungarian

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Etymology

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From German imprägnieren, from Latin impraegnare.[1] With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈimprɛɡnaːl]
  • Hyphenation: imp‧reg‧nál
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Verb

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impregnál

  1. (transitive) to impregnate (to saturate or infuse material with a chemical substance to make it waterproof, heat-resistant, acid-resistant, etc.)

Conjugation

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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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