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oman onnensa seppä

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Finnish

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Etymology

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oman (genitive of "own") onnensa (genitive of "happiness" + 3rd person possessive suffix) seppä (smith); "the smith of one's own destiny"

Noun

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oman onnensa seppä

  1. (idiomatic) self-made person, one's own man
    Olen oman onneni seppä, enkä tarvitse ketään.
    I am my own man and I need no one.

Declension

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  • onnensa receives a possessive suffix:
possessor singular plural
1st person onneni onnemme
2nd person onnesi onnenne
3rd person onnensa
Possessive forms of oman onnensa seppä (Kotus type 10*B/koira, pp-p gradation)