kaataa kylmää vettä jonkun niskaan
Finnish
[edit]Verb
[edit]kaataa kylmää vettä jonkun niskaan
- to rain on someone's parade (literally: To pour cold water on someone's neck)
Conjugation
[edit]See kaataa. kylmää vettä is not inflected. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, niskaan receives a possessive suffix, and the pronoun can then be dropped if it is a first-person or second-person pronoun; see Appendix:Finnish possessive suffixes § Verb phrases for more:
| possessor | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | niskaani | niskaamme |
| 2nd person | niskaasi | niskaanne |
| 3rd person | niskaansa | |