fejébe száll a dicsőség

Hungarian

Etymology

fej (“head”) +‎ -e (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix) +‎ -be (“into”, case suffix) +‎ száll (“to fly”) +‎ a (“the”) +‎ dicsőség (“glory”), literally “the glory flies into one's head”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈfɛjeːbɛ ˈsaːlː ɒ ˈdit͡ʃøːʃeːɡ]

Verb

fejébe száll a dicsőség

(idiomatic) to become swell-headed by success, to go to one's head (to become overconfident and self-conceited by one's own success)
Fejébe szállt a dicsőség! ― Success has gone to his head!

Conjugation

For the verb, see száll.
The noun dicsőség remains unchanged.
The noun fej takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence plus the case suffix: fejembe, fejedbe, fejébe, fejünkbe, fejetekbe, fejükbe.

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