sahata omaa oksaansa

Finnish

Alternative forms

• sahata omaa oksaa, sahata oksaa jolla istuu

Verb

sahata omaa oksaansa

1. (idiomatic) to saw off the branch one is sitting on, shoot oneself in the foot

Conjugation

• For the verb, see sahata.
• oksaansa is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. It also receives a possessive suffix:

possessor	singular	plural
1st person	oksaani	oksaamme
2nd person	oksaasi	oksaanne
3rd person	oksaansa