szemet huny

Hungarian

Etymology

szem (“eye”) +‎ -et (accusative suffix) +‎ huny (“to shut”)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈsɛmɛthuɲ]

Verb

szemet huny

  1. (idiomatic) to turn a blind eye (to something: felett (fölött)) (to deliberately overlook something unpleasant or improper)

Conjugation

  • For the verb, see huny.
  • The inflected noun szemet remains unchanged.
  • szemhunyásnyi (wink, as in ’I didn’t sleep a wink’)
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