szöget üt a fejébe

Hungarian

Etymology

szög (“nail”) +‎ -et (accusative suffix) +‎ üt (“to hit”) +‎ a (“the”) +‎ fej (“head”) +‎ -e (“his/her”, possessive suffix) +‎ -be (“into”, case suffix), literally “to hit a nail into one's head”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈsøɡɛt ˈyt ɒ ˈfɛjeːbɛ]

Verb

szöget üt a fejébe

(idiomatic) to set one thinking, to put a suspicion in one's mind
Szöget ütött a fejembe, hogy már hetek óta nem hívott. ― It put me to thinking that he/she didn't call me for weeks.

Conjugation

For the verb, see üt.
The inflected noun szöget 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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