szeme fénye

Hungarian

Etymology

szem (“eye”) + -e (“possessive suffix”) + fény (“light”) + -e (“possessive suffix”), literally: “the light of one's eye”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈsɛmɛfeːɲɛ]

Noun

szeme fénye

1. (idiomatic) apple of someone’s eye (the object of somebody's affections)
2. (idiomatic) (the source of) one’s pride (e.g. a grandchild for a grandparent)

Declension

• For szeme: It will take the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence: szemem, szemed, szeme, szemünk, szemetek, szemük.
• See fénye for the case suffixes.