szeme fénye

Hungarian

Etymology

szem (“eye”) + -e (“possessive suffix”) + fény (“light”) + -e (“possessive suffix”), literally: “the light of one's eye”

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈsɛmɛfeːɲɛ]

Noun

szeme fénye

(idiomatic) apple of someone’s eye (the object of somebody's affections)
(idiomatic) (the source of) one’s pride (e.g. a grandchild for a grandparent)

Declension

For szeme: It will take the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence: szemem, szemed, szeme, szemünk, szemetek, szemük.
See fénye for the case suffixes.

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