vetää herne nenäänsä

Finnish

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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vetää herne nenäänsä (literally, “to pull a pea up one's nose”)

  1. (idiomatic) to get one's knickers in a twist, become irritated, to get angry, to take something personally

Conjugation

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  • For the verb, see vetää.
  • herne is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.
  • nenäänsä is in illative case and receives a possessive suffix:
possessor singular plural
1st person nenääni nenäämme
2nd person nenääsi nenäänne
3rd person nenäänsä