alig áll a lábán
Hungarian
Etymology
alig (“hardly”) + áll (“to stand”) + a (“the”) + láb (“foot”) + -a (possessive suffix) + -n (case suffix)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈɒliɡ ˈaːlː ɒˈlaːbaːn]
Phrase
alig áll a lábán
- (idiomatic) to be exhausted, ready to collapse, too tired to stand
- Alig állok a lábamon. ― (I am so tired) I can barely stand.
Conjugation
- See at áll. The adverb alig remains unchanged. The inflected noun lábán takes the appropriate possessive suffix: lábamon, lábadon, lábán, lábunkon, lábatokon, lábukon.