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valaa öljyä laineille

Finnish

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Etymology

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Literally, “to cast oil on waves”

Verb

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valaa öljyä laineille

  1. (idiomatic) to pour oil on troubled waters

Conjugation

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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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