sahata omaa oksaansa

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Finnish

Alternative forms

sahata omaa oksaa, sahata oksaa jolla istuu

Verb

sahata omaa oksaansa

(idiomatic) to saw off the branch one is sitting on, shoot oneself in the foot

Conjugation

For the verb, see sahata.
oksaansa is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. It also receives a possessive suffix:

possessor	singular	plural
1st person	oksaani	oksaamme
2nd person	oksaasi	oksaanne
3rd person	oksaansa

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