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kääntää selkänsä

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Finnish

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Verb

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kääntää selkänsä

  1. (also idiomatic) to turn one's back

Conjugation

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  • See kääntää.
  • selkänsä 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.
  • selkänsä also receives a possessive suffix:
Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person selkäni selkämme
2nd person selkäsi selkänne
3rd person selkänsä