fogához veri a garast

Hungarian

Etymology

fog (“tooth”) +‎ -a (possessive suffix) +‎ -hoz (“to”) + ver (“to hit, beat”) +‎ -i (personal suffix) + a (“the”) + garas (“penny”) +‎ -t (accusative suffix), literally “to beat the penny to one's tooth”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈfoɡaːɦoz ˈvɛri ɒ ˈɡɒrɒʃt]

Verb

fogához veri a garast

(idiomatic) to be close-fisted, tight-fisted, miserly, stingy, cheap (to be excessively stingy with money)
Synonym: zsugori

Declension

For the verb, see the definite conjugation of ver.
The inflected noun garast remains unchanged.
The noun fog (“tooth”) takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence plus the case suffix: fogamhoz, fogadhoz, fogához, fogunkhoz, fogatokhoz, fogukhoz.

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