maga alatt vágja a fát
Hungarian
Etymology
maga (“oneself”) + alatt (“under”) + vág (“to cut”) + -ja (personal suffix) + a (“the”) + fa (“tree”) + -t (accusative suffix), literally “to cut the tree under oneself”
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈmɒɡɒɒlɒtː ˈvaːɡjɒ ɒ ˈfaːt]
Verb
maga alatt vágja a fát
- (idiomatic) to shoot oneself in the foot (to act against one's own interests, to act self-destructively)
Conjugation
- For the verb, see the definite conjugation of vág.
- The inflected noun fát remains unchanged.
- The postpositional phrase maga alatt takes the appropriate personal suffix according to the subject of the sentence: magam alatt, magad alatt, maga alatt, magunk alatt, magatok alatt, maguk alatt.