a vérében van

Hungarian

Etymology

Literally, “to be in one's blood”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɒ ˈveːreːbɛn ˈvɒn]

Verb

a vérében van

1. (idiomatic) to be in someone's blood, to be a natural (to have an inborn trait, especially one that one shares with other members of their family)

   A családunk minden tagja gitározik, a zene a vérünkben van.

   Every member of our family plays the guitar, music is in our blood.

Conjugation

• For the verb, see van.
• The noun vér (“blood”) takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence plus the inessive case suffix:

  véremben (“in my blood”)

  véredben (“in your blood”)

  vérében (“in his/her/its blood”)

  vérünkben (“in our blood”)

  véretekben (“in your blood”)

  vérükben (“in their blood”)