hoilata hoosiannaa
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Literally, “to sing 'hosanna'”
Verb edit
hoilata hoosiannaa (colloquial)
- to give out, to burn out, to beg for mercy
- Tunnin kun kävelee jyrkkää alamäkeä, niin kyllä siinä reidet alkavat hoilata hoosiannaa.
- If you walk an hour down a steep descent, then yeah, your thighs will start to give out.
Conjugation edit
See hoilata. hoosiannaa is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.