homokba dugja a fejét

Hungarian edit

Etymology edit

homok (“sand”) +‎ -ba (“in”, case suffix) +‎ dug (“to stick”) +‎ -ja (personal suffix) +‎ a (“the”) +‎ fej (“head”) +‎ -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix) +‎ -t (accusative suffix), literally “to stick one’s head in[to] the sand”

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈhomoɡbɒ ˈduɡjɒ ɒ ˈfɛjeːt]

Verb edit

homokba dugja a fejét

(idiomatic) to bury one's head in the sand (to deliberately ignore the reality of a situation; to pretend a problem does not exist)

Conjugation edit

For the verb, see the definite conjugation of dug.
The inflected noun homokba remains unchanged.
The noun fej takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence plus the accusative suffix: fejem/fejemet, fejed/fejedet, fejét, fejünket, fejeteket, fejüket.