alig áll a lábán

Hungarian

Etymology

alig (“hardly”) + áll (“to stand”) + a (“the”) + láb (“foot”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix) +‎ -n (case suffix)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɒliɡ ˈaːlː ɒˈlaːbaːn]

Phrase

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
  • See at áll. The adverb alig remains unchanged. The inflected noun lábán takes the appropriate possessive suffix: lábamon, lábadon, lábán, lábunkon, lábatokon, lábukon.
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