kerjätä verta nenästä
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “to ask/beg for blood from one's nose”, due to a bloody nose being a common consequence of being punched in the face.
Verb
[edit]- (idiomatic) to ask or beg for a knuckle sandwich
- (idiomatic, by extension) to ask for it, to ask for trouble
Conjugation
[edit]See kerjätä. verta is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. nenästä is not inflected, but the latter often receives a possessive suffix:
| Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | nenästäni | nenästämme |
| 2nd person | nenästäsi | nenästänne |
| 3rd person | nenästään nenästänsä | |