vetää itsensä hirteen

Finnish

Alternative forms

• vetää itsensä jojoon (colloquial)

Etymology

Literally, “to pull oneself to a hanging tree”

Verb

vetää itsensä hirteen (informal, intransitive, reflexive)

1. to hang oneself, to commit suicide by hanging

   Synonyms: hirttäytyä, mennä hirteen

Conjugation

• For the verb, see vetää.
• itse 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.
• itsensä also receives a possessive suffix:

possessor	singular	plural
1st person	itseni	itsemme
2nd person	itsesi	itsenne
3rd person	itsensä

• hirteen is not inflected.