Finnish

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Etymology

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Possibly English influence, from the expression "to throw a trip".

Verb

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heittää reissu (colloquial)

  1. to throw a trip, to do a trip, to travel, especially spontaneously
    Heitettiin reissu Tampereelle katsomaan lätkää.
    We threw a trip to Tampere to watch ice hockey.

Conjugation

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See heittää. reissu 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.

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