Hungarian

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Etymology

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From German aktivieren, from French activer.[1] With the verb-forming suffix -ál.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈɒktivaːl]
  • Hyphenation: ak‧ti‧vál
  • Rhymes: -aːl

Verb

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aktivál

  1. (transitive) to activate, to enable (to put something into action)
    Synonyms: működésbe hoz, bekapcsol
  2. (transitive, chemistry) to activate (to accelerate the chemical reaction of a material)
  3. (transitive, physics) to activate (to make something radioactive)
  4. (transitive, psychology) to activate, retrieve (to recall information from long-term memory)

Conjugation

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Antonyms

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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

Further reading

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  • aktivál in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).