földbe gyökerezik a lába
Hungarian
Etymology
föld (“earth”) + -be (“into”, case suffix) + gyökerezik (“to be rooted”) + a (“the”) + láb (“leg”) + -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix), literally “one's leg gets rooted in the earth”
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈføldbɛ ˈɟøkɛrɛzik ɒ ˈlaːbɒ]
Verb
földbe gyökerezik a lába
- (idiomatic) to become rooted to the spot (to stand frozen due to surprise or fright)
Conjugation
- For the verb, see gyökerezik.
- The inflected noun földbe remains unchanged.
- The noun láb takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence: lábam, lábad, lába, lábunk, lábatok, lábuk.