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Finnish
Etymology
The adessive singular of rähmä (“rheum”) (rähmällä) with a possessive suffix. Literally, “on one's rheum”, i.e. "face down".
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Adverb
rähmällään
- prone (lying face down)
- olla rähmällään ― to grovel (to be prone on the ground)
- (figuratively) grovelling (to abase oneself before another person)
Toisen maailmansodan jälkeen Suomi oli rähmällään Neuvostoliiton edessä.- After the Second World War Finland had to grovel in front of the Soviet Union.
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