rémeket lát

Hungarian

Etymology

rém (“specter, monster, phantom”) +‎ -ek (plural suffix) +‎ -et (accusative suffix) + lát (“to see”), literally: "to see phantoms".

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈreːmɛkɛtlaːt]

Verb

rémeket lát

  1. (idiomatic) to imagine things, to overreact, to be an alarmist (to anticipate a bad outcome without having a good reason for it, to have irrational fear, to see worrying signs everywhere, to judge the situation/future negatively)
    Nem lesz semmi bajod. Rémeket látsz. ― You'll be all right. You imagine things.

Conjugation
  • The inflected noun rémeket remains unchanged.
  • For the verb, see lát.
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