haukkoa henkeään

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Finnish

Etymology

haukkoa + henkeä < henki (breath) + possessive suffix

Verb

haukkoa henkeään

  1. to gasp (for breath)
    Ilma oli niin ohutta, että jouduin haukkomaan henkeäni.
    The air was so thin that I had to gasp for breath.

Conjugation

See haukkoa. henkeään is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. It also receives a possessive suffix:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person henkeäni henkeämme
2nd person henkeäsi henkeänne
3rd person henkeään
henkeänsä