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Finnish
Verb
nousta päähän
- (impersonal + adessive) to go to someone's head (to strongly affect a person, especially to the detriment of his or her senses or mental faculties)
Menestys ei ole noussut hänellä päähän.- His success has not gone to his head.
- (impersonal + adessive) to come up (to begin to feel the effects of a recreational drug (British slang))
Näin hänen ilmesstään, että hänellä alkoi jo nousta päähän- I could tell from her expression she was coming up already.
Conjugation
This impersonal verb is always used in the third person singular, but may be inflected in tense (such as present or past) and mood (such as indicative or conditional). To see the conjugated forms of the verb, see nousta.
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