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kaivaa omaa hautaansa

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Finnish

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Verb

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kaivaa omaa hautaansa

  1. (idiomatic) to dig one's own grave

Conjugation

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See kaivaa. omaa hautaa is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. It also receives the possessive suffix:

possessor singular plural
1st person hautaani hautaamme
2nd person hautaasi hautaanne
3rd person hautaansa