tipahtaa jonkun syliin

Finnish

Verb

(idiomatic) to fall into someone's lap

Conjugation

See tipahtaa. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, syliin receives a possessive suffix, and the pronoun can then be dropped if it is a first-person or second-person pronoun; see Appendix:Finnish possessive suffixes § Verb phrases for more:

possessor	singular	plural
1st person	syliini	syliimme
2nd person	syliisi	syliinne
3rd person	syliinsä