pitää kutinsa
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]kutinsa (with a possessive suffix), from dialectal mieskuti (“assembly (of men)”) (when that assembly has decided something, it has become right or true), from dialectal kuti (“group (of fish)”), which is derived from kutea.
Verb
[edit]pitää kutinsa (idiomatic, intransitive)
- to be right, be true
- (chiefly in the negative) to (not) hold one's own = to give in, relent
Conjugation
[edit]- See pitää.
- kutinsa 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. It also receives a possessive suffix:
| Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | kutini | kutimme |
| 2nd person | kutisi | kutinne |
| 3rd person | kutinsa | |
| Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | kutiani | kutiamme |
| 2nd person | kutiasi | kutianne |
| 3rd person | kutiaan kutiansa | |