Kiindult

Kiindult is a Hungarian verb meaning to set off or depart. It denotes leaving a place to begin a journey or to start moving outward from a point. The form is intransitive and is commonly used for people, vehicles, or groups that begin motion. For example, a sentence such as A hajó kiindult a kikötőből reggel literally means the ship left the harbor in the morning. The sense can also be used metaphorically to indicate the start of a process or development, as in A projekt kiindult, és gyorsan növekedett.

The infinitive of the verb is kiindulni, and kiindult is a common past form used with third-person singular subjects (and in other contexts to express that something has already left or begun). In present usage, kiindul can appear as kiindul (he/she/it departs) and other subject forms follow standard Hungarian conjugation patterns for intransitive verbs. The prefix ki- signals outward movement, distinguishing kiindul from the unprefixed indul, which can have a broader or more general sense of starting.

Related terms include kiindulás, the noun meaning departure or onset, and kiinduló, an adjective describing something that is starting or initiating. These forms are commonly used in travel reports, logistics, project planning, and narrative descriptions of events that “begin” or “take off.” Kiindult thus functions as a typical, neutral designation of motion outward from a point in Hungarian.