Hungarian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from German rekonstruieren.[1] With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈrɛkonʃtruaːl]
  • Hyphenation: re‧konst‧ru‧ál
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Verb

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rekonstruál

  1. (transitive) to reconstruct, restore (to restore something to its original state using fragmentary parts)
  2. (transitive, figurative) to reconstruct (to attempt to understand an event by recreating or talking through the circumstances)

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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