What does “tele van a tököm” mean in Hungarian?

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B1 Hungarian listening practice · Hungarian · Picked for people who know some

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tele van a tököm
Hungarian vulgar idiom
I’m fed up to the back teeth“ — literally, crudely, ”my balls are full.

After three days fighting flat-pack furniture, the narrator snaps: “tököm tele volt ebből” — roughly “I’d had it up to here with this.” Literally it says “my tök is full,” where tök is slang for testicles, so the phrase is genuinely crude — closer to English “I’m sick to death of it.” It is everyday spoken Hungarian among friends, but keep it well away from polite or formal company.

A clean, all-ages alternative with the same meaning is “tele van a hócipőm” — “my snow-boot is full.” Tök itself is innocent in most words: it means “pumpkin/squash” (tökfőzelék) and powers the intensifier tök jó (“totally good”). The reel pairs the gripe with a nicer idiom too: “úgy haladt, mint kés a vajban” — it went “like a knife through butter.”

How common are the words?

How common are the words in this B1 Hungarian listening practice video?

92.1%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Hungarian words
Most of the words in this video are common Hungarian words.

How common in written Hungarian

87.2%
Top 1,000
92.1%
Top 2,000
96.3%
Top 5,000

How common in spoken Hungarian

95.5%
Top 1,000
98.6%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000
👄 Words for talking
This video uses words people often say in Hungarian.

Harder words in this video

These words are harder than B1. Here is what they mean.

csavarhúzó
2×
Not in top 5,000
screwdriver
állítsam
1×
Not in top 5,000
I should set
állványt
1×
Not in top 5,000
stand
betartoltuk
1×
Not in top 5,000
we adhered
bútort
1×
Not in top 5,000
furniture
kés a vajban
1×
easy and smooth progress or task

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). These numbers are close, not perfect.

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