Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

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

Pronunciation edit

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

Verb edit

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)

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References edit

  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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