Hőmérséklet

Meaning:

temperature

Pronunciation:

Example sentences:

Néha nehéz kibírni a nyári hőmérsékletet.

Sometimes it’s hard to take the summer temperature.

[Sometimes hard out-take the summer-y temperature(acc.).]

A negyven fok feletti hőmérséklet elviselhetetlen a városban.

A temperature above 40 degrees is unbearable in the city.

[The forty degree above-y temperature unbearable the city-in.]

Related terms:

hőmérő – thermometer

hő – heat

mérséklet – restraint, modesty, moderation

mér – to measure

fok – degree

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