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Hungarian
Etymology
kemény (“hard”) + dió (“nut”)
Pronunciation
Noun
kemény dió (plural kemény diók)
- (idiomatic) hard nut to crack, toughie (a problem that is challenging to solve)
- Synonym: fogas kérdés
- (idiomatic) hard nut to crack (a situation, person, group, etc. which is difficult to overcome or deal with)
Declension
- For the noun, see dió.
- The adjective kemény is not declined but may be used in the comparative:
- keményebb dió ― a harder nut to crack