No. 863 in Hungarian
helyére
"To its place" or "into place."
In a sentence
Tedd vissza a könyvet a helyére.
Put the book back to its place.
In this sentence, 'helyére' is used to indicate returning something to its proper location, functioning as a possessive form of 'hely' (place) with a directional postfix 're', denoting 'onto its place'.
A színész helyére ugrott be ma este.
Tonight, someone took the place of the actor.
Here, 'helyére' is used to signify that someone assumed the role or position of another person, implying substitution.
A szék helyére tettünk egy fotelt.
We replaced the chair with an armchair.
In this sentence, 'helyére' expresses that the armchair took the space or position of the chair, involving positional replacement.
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