heittää vesilintua

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Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Literally "to throw at a waterfowl", a roundabout way to refer to throwing something into a lake.

Verb[edit]

heittää vesilintua

  1. to throw away
    En tarvinnut sitä enää, joten heitin sillä vesilintua.
    I no longer needed it so I threw it away.

Conjugation[edit]

See heittää. vesilintua is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.

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