kääriä hihansa
Finnish
[edit]Verb
[edit]kääriä hihansa (literally: "to roll up one's sleeves")
- (idiomatic) to pull one's socks up
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: kääriä hihansa.
Conjugation
[edit]- See kääriä.
- hihansa 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 also receives a possessive suffix:
| Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | hihani | hihamme |
| 2nd person | hihasi | hihanne |
| 3rd person | hihansa | |