homokba dugja a fejét

Hungarian

Etymology

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

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

Verb

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

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.

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