haistaa palaneen käryä

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to smell something burning”.

Verb

haistaa palaneen käryä

1. (idiomatic) to smell a rat (to sense something suspicious)
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haistaa,‎ palaneen,‎ käryä.

Conjugation

See haistaa. palaneen käryä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.