a háta mögött

Hungarian

Etymology

a (“the”) +‎ hát (“back”) +‎ -a (“his/her/its”, possessive suffix) +‎ mögött (“behind”), literally “behind one’s back”

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɒ ˈhaːtɒ ˈmøɡøtː]

Phrase

a háta mögött

  1. (idiomatic) behind someone's back (when someone is not present)[1]
    A munkatársam szemben hízeleg a főnöknek, de a háta mögött gúnyt űz belőle. ― My coworker is nice to the boss when he’s here, but makes fun of him when he’s not present.
  2. (idiomatic) behind someone's back (without somebody's knowledge, deliberately leaving someone out)[1]
    Kati háta mögött eladták mindenét. ― They’ve sold all Kati’s property behind her back.

Declension

  • The noun hát (“back”) takes the appropriate possessive suffix according to the subject of the sentence: hátam (“my back”), hátad (“your back”, singular), háta (“his/her/its back”), hátunk (“our back”), hátatok (“your back”, plural), hátuk (“their back”).
  • The postposition mögött remains unchanged.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 The 2nd sense of mögött in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
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