Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
feleség (“wife”) + -ül (“as”, essive-modal case suffix) + kér (“to ask”)
Pronunciation[edit]
feleségül kér
- (transitive, idiomatic, of a man) to propose (to ask for a woman's hand in marriage)
Conjugation[edit]
- For the verb, see kér.
- The inflected noun feleségül remains unchanged.