poimia rusinat pullasta

Finnish

Etymology

poimia (“to pick”) + rusinat (“the raisins”) + pullasta (“from a cardamom bread”); cardamom bread is a popular sweet baked good in Finland, and it is often baked with raisins which many consider the best part of it.

Verb

poimia rusinat pullasta

(idiomatic, intransitive) to cherry-pick (to select only the best from a range of options)

Conjugation

See poimia. rusinat is in the plural and normally in the accusative case (which appears identical to the nominative case in the plural), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.

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