homokba dugja a fejét

Hungarian

Etymology

homok (“sand”) +‎ -ba (“in”, case suffix) +‎ dug (“to stick”) +‎ -ja (personal suffix) +‎ a (“the”) +‎ fej (“head”) +‎ -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix) +‎ -t (accusative suffix), literally “to stick one’s head in[to] the sand”

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhomoɡbɒ ˈduɡjɒ ɒ ˈfɛjeːt]

Verb

homokba dugja a fejét

1. (idiomatic) to bury one's head in the sand (to deliberately ignore the reality of a situation; to pretend a problem does not exist)

Conjugation

• For the verb, see the definite conjugation of dug.
• The inflected noun homokba remains unchanged.
• The noun fej takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence plus the accusative suffix: fejem/fejemet, fejed/fejedet, fejét, fejünket, fejeteket, fejüket.