haukkoa henkeään
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 | |