katkaista siivet
Finnish
[edit]Verb
[edit]- (intransitive, idiomatic) to clip someone's wings [with genitive ‘someone’ (possibly with possessive suffix for siivet); or with ablative ‘someone's’ (without possessive suffix)]
Conjugation
[edit]- See katkaista.
- siivet is in the plural and normally in the accusative case (which appears identical to the nominative case in the plural), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.