beletörik a nyelve

Hungarian

Etymology

beletörik (“to break into”) +‎ a (“the”) +‎ nyelv (“tongue”) +‎ -e (possessive suffix), literally “one's tongue breaks into”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈbɛlɛtørik ɒ ˈɲɛlvɛ]

Verb

beletörik a nyelve

1. (idiomatic) to stumble over one's tongue (followed by: -ba/-be) (to have difficulty in pronouncing something)

   Synonym: alig tudja kimondani

   Beletört a nyelve az idegen szavakba. ― He stumbled over his tongue trying to say the foreign words.

Conjugation

• For the verb, see beletörik.
• The noun nyelv takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence: nyelvem, nyelved, nyelve, nyelvünk, nyelvetek, nyelvük.