a háta mögött
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Hungarian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]a (“the”) + hát (“back”) + -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix) + mögött (“behind”), literally “behind one’s back”
Pronunciation
[edit]Phrase
[edit]- (idiomatic) behind someone's back (when someone is not present)[1]
- A munkatársam szemben hízeleg a főnöknek, de a háta mögött gúnyt űz belőle. ― My coworker is nice to the boss when he’s here, but makes fun of him when he’s not present.
- (idiomatic) behind someone's back (without somebody's knowledge, deliberately leaving someone out)[1]
- Kati háta mögött eladták mindenét. ― They’ve sold all Kati’s property behind her back.
Declension
[edit]- The noun hát (“back”) takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence: hátam (“my back”), hátad (“your back”, singular), háta (“his/her/its back”), hátunk (“our back”), hátatok (“your back”, plural), hátuk (“their back”).
- The postposition mögött remains unchanged.
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The 2nd sense of mögött in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN