sydän on paikallaan

Finnish

Verb

(idiomatic) to have one's heart in the right place (one's = adessive)

Usage notes

This verb phrase always has sydän (“heart”) as its subject, which often receives either a possessive suffix or a possessor that comes before the word in the genitive case.

Conjugation

The verb is always used in the third person singular, but may be inflected in tense (such as present or past) and mood (such as indicative or conditional). The infinitive forms are not used. To see the conjugated forms of the verb, see olla.