körmére ég

Hungarian

Etymology

köröm (“nail”) +‎ -e (possessive suffix) +‎ -re (“onto”, case suffix) + ég (“to burn”), literally: "to burn onto one's nail"

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈkørmeːrɛeːɡ]

Verb

körmére ég

  1. (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
  • See at ég. The inflected noun körmére will take the appropriate possessive suffix.
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