heittää vesilintua
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally "to throw at a waterfowl", a roundabout way to refer to throwing something into a lake.
Verb
[edit]- to throw away
- En tarvinnut sitä enää, joten heitin sillä vesilintua.
- I no longer needed it so I threw it away.
Conjugation
[edit]See heittää. vesilintua is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.