pitää puolensa

Finnish

Verb

pitää puolensa (idiomatic, intransitive)

1. to hold up, stand up, stick to one's guns, stand one's ground
2. to hold one's own

Conjugation

• See pitää.
• puolensa 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	puoleni	puolemme
2nd person	puolesi	puolenne
3rd person	puolensa