syöttää pajunköyttä

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Literally, to feed (someone) with willow rope

Verb

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syöttää pajunköyttä

  1. (idiomatic) to lie (to = allative)

Conjugation

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