tehdä oma osuutensa

Finnish

Verb

tehdä oma osuutensa

1. to do one's part
2. to keep one's side of the bargain

Conjugation

• See tehdä.
• oma 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. The same also applies to osuutensa, which also takes a possessive suffix:

possessor	singular	plural
1st person	osuuteni	osuutemme
2nd person	osuutesi	osuutenne
3rd person	osuutensa

• In negative (e.g. ei tehnyt omaa osuuttaan (“did not do his/her [own] part”)), the last word is inflected in possessive forms as follows:

possessor	singular	plural
1st person	osuuttani	osuuttamme
2nd person	osuuttasi	osuuttanne
3rd person	osuuttaan osuuttansa