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Finnish
Verb
nuolla näppejään (literally to lick one's fingertips)
- (idiomatic) to not have something, especially something that one has worked or tried to work for (used in expressions)
- jäädä nuolemaan näppejään ― (idiomatic) to be left without (something)
- jättää nuolemaan näppejään ― (idiomatic) to leave (someone) without (something)
Conjugation
See nuolla. näppejään 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: