heittää vesilintua

Finnish edit

Etymology edit

Literally "to throw at a waterfowl", a roundabout way to refer to throwing something into a lake.

Verb edit

heittää vesilintua

  1. to throw away
    En tarvinnut sitä enää, joten heitin sillä vesilintua.
    I no longer needed it so I threw it away.

Conjugation edit

See heittää. vesilintua is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.