kuulla kunniansa
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]kuulla (“to hear”) kunniansa (“one's honor; here: one's worth”)
Verb
[edit]- to get a piece of someone's mind, to be told off (to be reprimanded)
- Annan hänen kuulla kunniansa eilisillan juhlista.
- I'm going to go give her a piece of my mind about her party yesterday evening.
Conjugation
[edit]- see conjugation for kuulla
- kunniansa takes a possessive suffix that refers to the person reprimanded, see declension table under kunnia