hisz a fülének
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]hisz (“to believe”) + a (“the”) + fül (“ear”) + -e (possessive suffix) + -nek (case suffix), literally “to believe one's ears”
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]- (intransitive, idiomatic, chiefly in the negative) to believe one's ears
- 1964, Tibor Déry, G. A. úr X-ben, Bucharest: Kriterion Könyvkiadó (1989), →ISBN, page 283:
- — Nem hiszek a fülemnek — kiáltotta a fiatalember, kezét ijedten a szájára csapva.
- I can't believe my ears — cried the young man, striking his mouth with his hand, alarmed.
Conjugation
[edit]- For the verb, see hisz.
- The noun fül takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence plus the dative suffix: fülemnek, fülednek, fülének, fülünknek, fületeknek, fülüknek.