földbe gyökerezik a lába

Hungarian

Etymology

föld (“earth”) +‎ -be (“into”, case suffix) +‎ gyökerezik (“to be rooted”) +‎ a (“the”) +‎ láb (“leg”) +‎ -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix), literally “one's leg gets rooted in the earth”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈføldbɛ ˈɟøkɛrɛzik ɒ ˈlaːbɒ]

Verb

földbe gyökerezik a lába

1. (idiomatic) to become rooted to the spot (to stand frozen due to surprise or fright)

Conjugation

• For the verb, see gyökerezik.
• The inflected noun földbe remains unchanged.
• The noun láb takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence: lábam, lábad, lába, lábunk, lábatok, lábuk.