heittää henkensä

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Finnish

Verb

heittää henkensä (colloquial) (literally, “to throw one's spirit”)

  1. (idiomatic) to give up the ghost, to die

Conjugation

See heittää; henkensä 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. It also receives a possessive suffix:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person henkeni henkemme
2nd person henkesi henkenne
3rd person henkensä

Synonyms