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

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