vetää itsensä hirteen
Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Literally, “to pull oneself to a hanging tree”
Verb
[edit]vetää itsensä hirteen (informal, intransitive, reflexive)
- to hang oneself, to commit suicide by hanging
- Synonyms: hirttäytyä, mennä hirteen
Conjugation
[edit]- For the verb, see vetää.
- itse 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.
- itsensä also receives a possessive suffix:
| Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase | ||
|---|---|---|
| possessor | singular | plural |
| 1st person | itseni | itsemme |
| 2nd person | itsesi | itsenne |
| 3rd person | itsensä | |
- hirteen is not inflected.