pitää puheensa
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “to keep one's talk”
Verb
[edit]- (idiomatic, intransitive) to walk the talk (US) (to do what one said one could do, or would do, not just making empty promises)
Conjugation
[edit]See pitää. puheensa 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:
| possessor | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | puheeni | puheemme |
| 2nd person | puheesi | puheenne |
| 3rd person | puheensa | |