No. 612 in Hungarian
meglepő
Surprising.
In a sentence
A meglepő hír gyorsan elterjedt a városban.
The surprising news quickly spread throughout the town.
'Meglepő' is used as an adjective here to describe the noun 'hír' (news), attributing it with the quality of being surprising.
Ez a részlet meglepő, nem gondoltam volna, hogy ilyen történhet.
This detail is surprising; I wouldn't have thought something like this could happen.
Here, 'meglepő' is also an adjective, characterizing the noun 'részlet' (detail) as unexpected.
Elsőre meglepőnek tűnt a döntés, de később megértettem az okát.
At first, the decision seemed surprising, but later I understood its reason.
'Meglepőnek' is the inflected form (here in the dative case) of the adjective 'meglepő', again used to attribute an unexpected quality to the noun 'döntés' (decision).
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