lyödä itsensä läpi
Finnish edit
Verb edit
- (idiomatic) to make a breakthrough, get one's big break
- Madonna löi itsensä läpi 1980-luvulla.
- Madonna got her big break in the 1980s.
Conjugation edit
See lyödä. itsensä 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 takes the appropriate possessive suffix:
| possessor | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | itseni | itsemme |
| 2nd person | itsesi | itsenne |
| 3rd person | itsensä | |