antaa opetus
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]antaa (“to give”) opetus (“a teaching, lesson”)
Verb
[edit]- to teach someone a lesson [with allative] (to punish someone)
- Minä annan hänelle opetuksen!
- I will teach him a lesson!
- On tarpeen antaa hänelle opetus.
- It is necessary to teach him a lesson.
Conjugation
[edit]See antaa. opetus 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.