olla sanomista

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Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

olla (to have) +‎ sanomista (to say)

Verb[edit]

olla sanomista

  1. to find fault (subject = adessive) (to criticize excessively)
    Mitä ikinä teenkin, hänellä on aina sanomista.
    No matter what I do, he always finds fault.

Conjugation[edit]

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). The 'subject' of the verb is inflected in the adessive case. To see the conjugated forms of the verb, see olla.. Grammatically speaking sanomista is the subject of the sentence, and the person who finds fault is indicated with adessive case.