haistaa palaneen käryä
Finnish
editEtymology
editLiterally, “to smell something burning”.
Verb
edit- (idiomatic) to smell a rat (to sense something suspicious)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haistaa, palaneen, käryä.
Conjugation
editSee haistaa. palaneen käryä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.