jättää arpi

Finnish

Etymology

jättää (“to leave”) + arpi (“scar”)

Verb

jättää arpi

1. (idiomatic) to scar [with illative] (to mark the skin permanently with a scar; also figuratively)

Conjugation

See jättää. arpi 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.