fogához veri a garast
Hungarian
Etymology
fog (“tooth”) + -a (possessive suffix) + -hoz (“to”) + ver (“to hit, beat”) + -i (personal suffix) + a (“the”) + garas (“penny”) + -t (accusative suffix), literally “to beat the penny to one's tooth”
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈfoɡaːɦoz ˈvɛri ɒ ˈɡɒrɒʃt]Category:Hungarian terms with IPA pronunciation#FOGAHOZ%20VERI%20A%20GARAST
Verb
fogához veri a garastCategory:Hungarian lemmas#FOGAHOZ%20VERI%20A%20GARASTCategory:Hungarian verbs#FOGAHOZ%20VERI%20A%20GARASTCategory:Hungarian multiword terms#FOGAHOZ%20VERI%20A%20GARASTCategory:Hungarian entries with incorrect language header#FOGAHOZ%20VERI%20A%20GARASTCategory:Pages with entries#FOGÁHOZ%20VERI%20A%20GARASTCategory:Pages with 1 entry#FOGÁHOZ%20VERI%20A%20GARAST
- (idiomaticCategory:Hungarian idioms#FOGAHOZ%20VERI%20A%20GARAST) to be close-fisted, tight-fisted, miserly, stingy, cheap (to be excessively stingy with money)
- Synonym: zsugori
Declension
- For the verb, see the definite conjugation of ver.
- The inflected noun garast remains unchanged.
- The noun fog (“tooth”) takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence plus the case suffix: fogamhoz, fogadhoz, fogához, fogunkhoz, fogatokhoz, fogukhoz.