heittää veivinsä

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Finnish

Etymology

From heittää (“to throw away”) + veivinsä (“one's crank”). Possibly from the times before starter motors when the cars had to be started with cranks.

Verb

heittää veivinsä (informal, intransitive)

  1. (idiomatic) to bite the dust, to die
    Synonyms: see kuolla

Conjugation

See heittää. veivinsä 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 takes the appropriate possessive suffix:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person veivini veivimme
2nd person veivisi veivinne
3rd person veivinsä
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