syödä sanansa
Finnish
Verb
syödä sanansa
- (idiomatic) to eat one's words, to break one's word (renege on or take back what one has said)
Conjugation
See syödä. sanansa is normally in accusative case, which appears as nominative or genitive depending on the context, but it is inflected in partitive case for negative or to express an ongoing or incomplete action. In addition, it receives a possessive suffix:
- sanani (1st-person sg.)
- sanasi (2nd-person sg.)
- sanansa (3rd-person sg.)
- sanamme (1st-person pl.)
- sananne (2nd-person pl.)
- sanansa (3rd-person pl.)