maksaa maltaita
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally "to cost malt(s)". Malted grains could once upon a time be used to pay taxes.
Verb
[edit]- (idiomatic) to cost an arm and a leg, to cost the earth (to be a huge expense)
- Kaupungin johdon tyhmyys maksaa meille maltaita.
- The dumbness of the city management costs us the earth.
Conjugation
[edit]See maksaa. maltaita is in the plural number and in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.