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Finnish
Verb
kaataa kylmää vettä jonkun niskaan
- to rain on someone's parade (literally: To pour cold water on someone's neck)
Conjugation
See kaataa. kylmää vettä is not inflected. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, niskaan receives a possessive suffix, and the pronoun can then be dropped if it is a first-person or second-person pronoun; see Appendix:Finnish possessive suffixes § Verb phrases for more: