nyitott kapukat dönget

Hungarian

Alternative forms
  • nyitott kaput dönget

Etymology

nyitott (“open”) +‎ kapu (“door, gate”) +‎ -k (plural suffix) +‎ -at (accusative suffix) +‎ dönget (“to bang”), literally “to bang on open doors”

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɲitotː ˈkɒpukɒt ˈdøŋɡɛt]

Verb

nyitott kapukat dönget

  1. (idiomatic) to preach to the choir, preach to the converted (to force an open door, to ask something that was already agreed to or self-explanatory)

Conjugation
  • For the verb, see dönget.
  • The rest of the idiom remains unchanged.
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