heittää veivinsä
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From heittää (“to throw away”) + veivinsä (“one's crank”). Possibly from the times before starter motors when the cars had to be started with cranks.
Verb
[edit]heittää veivinsä (informal, intransitive)
- (idiomatic) to bite the dust, to die
- Synonyms: see kuolla
Conjugation
[edit]See heittää. veivinsä 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. It takes the appropriate possessive suffix:
| possessor | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | veivini | veivimme |
| 2nd person | veivisi | veivinne |
| 3rd person | veivinsä | |