olla jonkun kintereillä
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Finnish
[edit]Verb
[edit]olla jonkun kintereillä
- (idiomatic) to be at one's heels, to be on one's heels
Conjugation
[edit]See olla. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, kintereillä receives a possessive suffix, and the pronoun can then be dropped if it is a first-person or second-person pronoun; see Appendix:Finnish possessive suffixes § Verb phrases for more:
| possessor | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | kintereilläni | kintereillämme |
| 2nd person | kintereilläsi | kintereillänne |
| 3rd person | kintereillään kintereillänsä | |