alig áll a lábán

Hungarian

Etymology

alig (“barely”) +‎ áll (“to stand”) +‎ a (“the”) +‎ láb (“foot”) +‎ -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix) +‎ -n (“on”, case suffix), literally: "to barely [be able to] stand on one's foot"

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒliɡ ˈaːlː ɒ ˈlaːbaːn]

Verb

alig áll a lábán

1. (idiomatic) to be exhausted, ready to collapse, too tired to stand

   Alig állok a lábamon. ― (I am so tired) I can barely stand.

Conjugation

• For the verb, see áll.
• The adverb alig remains unchanged.
• The inflected noun lábán takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence: lábamon, lábadon, lábán, lábunkon, lábatokon, lábukon.