polttaa päreensä

Finnish

Verb

polttaa päreensä (literally, “to burn one's shingles”) (colloquial)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to blow a gasket, lose one's temper, fly off the handle

   Älä polta päreitäsi turhaan.

   Don't lose your temper for nothing.

   Jaska poltti päreensä nähdessään poikansa surkean todistuksen.

   Jack blew a gasket when he saw his son's poor report card.

Conjugation

• See polttaa.
• päreensä 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	päreeni	päreemme
2nd person	päreesi	päreenne
3rd person	päreensä