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

(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 noun láb takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence plus the case suffix: lábamon, lábadon, lábán, lábunkon, lábatokon, lábukon.

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