olla jonkun kannoilla

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Finnish[edit]

Verb[edit]

olla jonkun kannoilla

  1. (idiomatic) to be at one's heels, to be on one's heels

Conjugation[edit]

See olla. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, kannoilla 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:

possessor singular plural
1st person kannoillani kannoillamme
2nd person kannoillasi kannoillanne
3rd person kannoillaan
kannoillansa

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