valaa öljyä laineille

Finnish edit

Etymology edit

Literally, “to cast oil on waves”

Verb edit

valaa öljyä laineille

(idiomatic) to pour oil on troubled waters

Conjugation edit

See valaa. öljyä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.

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