pitää puheensa

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to keep one's talk”

Verb

pitää puheensa

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to walk the talk (US) (to do what one said one could do, or would do, not just making empty promises)

Conjugation

See pitää. puheensa 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	puheeni	puheemme
2nd person	puheesi	puheenne
3rd person	puheensa

See also

• pitää puhe