vierittää syy

Finnish

Verb

vierittää syy (literally, “to roll the reason”)

1. (idiomatic) to scapegoat

   Älä vieritä minulle syytä virheestäsi.

   Don't scapegoat me for your mistake. (literally: Don't roll the reason of your mistake onto me.)

Usage notes

The person or thing being scapegoated is either in the allative case, or alternatively in genitive case and with niskoille (+ possibly possessive suffix).

Conjugation

• See vierittää.
• syy 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.