felépül

Felépül is a Hungarian verb meaning to recover, to regain health or strength after illness or injury, and more broadly to be rebuilt or restored after damage or setback. The prefix fel- conveys a return or upward movement, combined with épül, from épülni “to be built,” yielding the sense of getting back on one’s feet.

The primary use describes people who recover physically or functionally. For example, a patient may felépül after surgery or illness. The term can also apply to non-human subjects or systems, such as a city, economy, or organization, in the sense that they recover or recover strength after a crisis, disaster, or downturn. In figurative contexts, felépül often emphasizes the process of improvement leading toward a stable state.

Grammatically, felépül is an intransitive verb: it describes the subject’s change of condition rather than acting on an external object. The present tense form felépül is used for third-person singular, with other persons and tenses formed according to standard Hungarian conjugation (felépülök, felépülsz, felépülünk, felépült, felépülne, etc.). The related noun felépülés denotes the process or result of recovery, while felépíteni means to rebuild or reconstruct, and meggyógyul is a closely related term focusing more specifically on medical recovery.