fogához veri a garast

Hungarian

Etymology

fog (“tooth”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix) +‎ -hoz (“to”) + ver (“to hit, beat”) +‎ -i (personal suffix) + a (“the”) + garas (“penny”) +‎ -t (accusative suffix), literally “to beat the penny to one's tooth”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈfoɡaːɦoz ˈvɛri ɒ ˈɡɒrɒʃt]

Verb

fogához veri a garast

1. (idiomatic) to be close-fisted, tight-fisted, miserly, stingy, cheap (to be excessively stingy with money)

   Synonym: zsugori

Declension

• For the verb, see the definite conjugation of ver.
• The inflected noun garast remains unchanged.
• The noun fog (“tooth”) takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence plus the case suffix: fogamhoz, fogadhoz, fogához, fogunkhoz, fogatokhoz, fogukhoz.