Hungarian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
kétség (“doubt”) + -be (“into”) + ejt (“to drive, to cause to become”)
Pronunciation[edit]
kétségbe ejt
- (transitive, idiomatic) to drive someone to despair
- Active-voice counterpart: kétségbeesik
Conjugation[edit]
- For the verb, see ejt.
- The inflected noun kétségbe remains unchanged.