pitää nenä pinnalla

Finnish

Verb

pitää nenä pinnalla

1. (idiomatic) to keep one's head above water

Conjugation

• For the verb, see pitää.
• nenä 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.
• pinnalla is not inflected.