haukkoa henkeään
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]haukkoa + henkeä < henki (“breath”) + possessive suffix
Verb
[edit]- to gasp (for breath)
- Ilma oli niin ohutta, että jouduin haukkomaan henkeäni.
- The air was so thin that I had to gasp for breath.
Conjugation
[edit]See haukkoa. henkeään 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 | henkeäni | henkeämme |
2nd person | henkeäsi | henkeänne |
3rd person | henkeään henkeänsä |