antaa kapula eteenpäin

Finnish

Verb

antaa kapula eteenpäin

1. (idiomatic) to pass the torch [with allative ‘to’] (transfer responsibility)

Declension

• See antaa.
• kapula 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.