alkoholba fojtja a bánatát

Hungarian

Etymology

alkohol (“alcohol”) +‎ -ba (“into”) +‎ fojt (“to drown”) +‎ -ja (personal suffix) +‎ a (“the”) +‎ bánat (“sorrow”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix) +‎ -t (accusative suffix), literally “to drown one’s sorrow into alcohol”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒlkoholbɒ ˈfojcɒ ɒ ˈbaːnɒtaːt]

Verb

alkoholba fojtja a bánatát

1. (idiomatic) to drown one's sorrows

Conjugation

• For the verb, see fojt.
• The inflected noun alkoholba remains unchanged.
• The noun bánat takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence plus the accusative suffix: bánatomat, bánatodat, bánatát, bánatunkat, bánatotokat, bánatukat.