puhua suunsa puhtaaksi

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to speak one's mouth clean”

Verb

(idiomatic) to speak one's mind
Puhu suusi puhtaaksi mieltäsi askarruttavista asioista.
Speak your mind about the issues weighing on your mind.

Conjugation

See puhua. suunsa 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 takes a possessive suffix:

possessor	singular	plural
1st person	suuni	suumme
2nd person	suusi	suunne
3rd person	suunsa

Synonyms

avata suunsa, avautua