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pitää sanansa

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Finnish

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Verb

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pitää sanansa

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to keep one's word

Conjugation

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  • For the verb, see pitää.
  • sana 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.
  • In addition, it receives a possessive suffix:
Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person sanani sanamme
2nd person sanasi sananne
3rd person sanansa