elege van

Hungarian

Etymology

From the noun elég (“enough”) +‎ -e (possessive suffix) +‎ van (“to have”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛlɛɡɛvɒn]

Verb

elege van

1. (idiomatic) to be fed up (with something -ból/-ből)

   Synonyms: tele van a hócipője, torkig van (beleun and megelégel are near-synonyms, as these are imperfective, referring to the process)

   Elege van a nagyvárosból. ― (S)he is fed up with the big city.

   Elegük volt az esőből. ― They were fed up with the rain.

Conjugation

• For the verb, see van.
• The noun takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the logical subject of the sentence: elegem, eleged, elege, elegünk, elegetek, elegük.