vierittää syy
Finnish
Verb
vierittää syy (literally "to roll the reason")
- (idiomatic) to scapegoat
- Älä vieritä minulle syytä virheestäsi.
- Don't scapegoat me for your mistake. (literally: Don't roll the reason of your mistake onto me.)
Usage notes
The person or thing being scapegoated is either in the allative case, or alternatively in genitive case and with niskoille (+ possibly possessive suffix).
Conjugation
- See vierittää.
- syy 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.