körmére ég

Hungarian

Etymology

köröm (“nail”) +‎ -e (possessive suffix) +‎ -re (“onto”, case suffix) +‎ ég (“to burn”), literally: "to burn onto one's nail"

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈkørmeːrɛeːɡ]

Verb

körmére ég

1. (idiomatic, of work, things to do) to be pressing, overdue (to leave something to the last minute until it becomes suddenly urgent, to wait until almost too late to do something)

   Körmömre ég a munka. ― My work is really pressing.

Conjugation

• For the verb, see ég.
• The inflected noun körmére takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence: körmömre, körmödre, körmére, körmünkre, körmötökre, körmükre.