pórul jár

Hungarian

Etymology

pór (“peasant”) +‎ -ul (“as”) +‎ jár (“to end up”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpoːruljaːr]

Verb

pórul jár

  1. (idiomatic) to come to grief (to have a disastrous or unpleasant outcome of a voluntary action)
    Synonyms: felsül, kudarcot vall, rajtaveszt, rosszul jár, ráfizet

Conjugation

  • For the verb, see jár.
  • The inflected noun pórul remains unchanged.

Further reading

  • pórul jár 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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