parantaa tapansa
Finnish
[edit]Verb
[edit]- (idiomatic) to mend one's ways
Conjugation
[edit]- See parantaa.
- tapansa is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.
- tapansa also receives a possessive suffix:
| Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | tapani | tapamme |
| 2nd person | tapasi | tapanne |
| 3rd person | tapansa | |