körmére ég
Hungarian
Etymology
From the körm- stem of köröm (“nail”) + -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix) + -re (“onto”, case suffix) + ég (“to burn”), literally “to burn onto one's nail”.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkørmeːrɛeːɡ]
Verb
körmére ég
- (idiomatic, of work, things to do) to be pressing, overdue (to leave something to the last minute until it becomes suddenly urgent, to wait until almost too late to do something)
- Körmömre ég a munka. ― My work is really pressing.
Conjugation
- For the verb, see ég.
- The noun köröm takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence plus the case suffix: körmömre, körmödre, körmére, körmünkre, körmötökre, körmükre.