beadja a derekát
Hungarian
Etymology
bead (“to hand in”) + -ja (personal suffix) + a (“the”) + derék (“waist”) + -a (possessive suffix) + -t (accusative suffix), literally: “to present one's waist”
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈbɛɒɟːɒ ɒˈdɛrɛkaːt]
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Verb
beadja a derekát
- (idiomatic) to give in, to cave in, to knuckle under (to relent or yield under pressure to somebody else's will)
Conjugation
- For the verb, see bead.
- The inflected noun derekát changes its possessive suffix to match the subject of the verb. For example: "beadtuk a derekunkat" ("We caved in").