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antaa kaikkensa

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Finnish

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Verb

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antaa kaikkensa

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to bring it, give one's all, empty the tank
    Okei, kun menemme kilpailuihin ensi kuussa, teidän täytyy todella antaa kaikkenne.
    OK, when we get to the competition next month, you really have to bring it.

Conjugation

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  • See antaa.
  • kaikkensa is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative. It also receives a possessive suffix:
possessor singular plural
1st person kaikkeni kaikkemme
2nd person kaikkesi kaikkenne
3rd person kaikkensa