viedä tuhkatkin pesästä

Finnish

Alternative forms

• viedä tuhkat pesästä

Verb

viedä tuhkatkin pesästä (literally, “to take even the ashes from the fireplace”)

1. (idiomatic) to take (away) everything one has, rob blind, take to the cleaners (+ ablative)

Conjugation

• See viedä.
• tuhkat is in the plural and normally in the accusative case (which appears identical to the nominative case in the plural), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.