Hungarian

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Etymology

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ki- +‎ indul

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈkiindul]
  • Hyphenation: ki‧in‧dul
  • Rhymes: -ul

Verb

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kiindul

  1. (intransitive) to set off, to depart, to head off, to head out (to leave to an outside location)
    A vonat kiindult az állomásról.The train set off from the station.
  2. (intransitive) to start, to take something as its starting point
    Visszajutottunk oda, ahonnan kiindultunk.We're back where we started.
  3. (intransitive) to originate, to come (from someone -tól/-től) (to come into existence)
    A kezdeményezés a lányomtól indult ki.The initiative came from my daughter.

Conjugation

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Further reading

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  • kiindul in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN