iskeä kirveensä kiveen
Finnish
editVerb
editiskeä kirveensä kiveen (literally, “to strike one's axe on a stone”)
- (idiomatic) to make a terrible mistake, screw the pooch
Conjugation
edit- See iskeä.
- kirveensä 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 takes a possessive suffix:
possessor | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
1st person | kirveeni | kirveemme |
2nd person | kirveesi | kirveenne |
3rd person | kirveensä |