szeme fénye

Hungarian

Etymology

szem (“eye”) + -e (“possessive suffix”) + fény (“light”) + -e (“possessive suffix”), literally: “the light of one's eye”

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛmɛfeːɲɛ]

Noun

szeme fénye

  1. (idiomatic) apple of somebody's eye (the object of somebody's affections)
  2. (idiomatic) (the source of) one's pride (e.g. a grandchild for a grandparent)

Declension
  • For szeme: It will take the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence: szemem, szemed, szeme, szemünk, szemetek, szemük.
  • See fénye for the case suffixes.
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