heittää henkensä
Finnish edit
Verb edit
heittää henkensä (colloquial) (literally, “to throw one's spirit”)
- (idiomatic) to give up the ghost, to die
Conjugation edit
See heittää; henkensä 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. It also receives a possessive suffix:
| possessor | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | henkeni | henkemme |
| 2nd person | henkesi | henkenne |
| 3rd person | henkensä | |