jäädä sille tielleen

Finnish

Verb

jäädä sille tielleen

1. (idiomatic) to never come back, to never return
   1. (euphemistic) to never make it back (alive)
      1. (military) to be killed in action (while trying to do something)
         • 1978, Tauno Seppä, quoting Eino Turtiainen, “Viimeiseen mieheen”, in Kansa taisteli, number 3 1978, page 96, column 4:

           Niilo lähti sitten vetämään erästä haavoittunutta alikersanttia pois asemasta ja jäi sille tielleen.

           Niilo then started to drag a wounded corporal out of the nest, and never made it back.

   2. to never return to what was doing earlier, e.g. when starting to do something else that was only meant to be temporary at first

Usage notes

Usually used in the past tense.

Conjugation

• See jäädä.
• tielleen takes a possessive suffix:

possessor	singular	plural
1st person	tielleni	tiellemme
2nd person	tiellesi	tiellenne
3rd person	tielleen tiellensä