jäädä luu käteen
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Finnish[edit]
Verb[edit]
jäädä luu käteen (literally, “to be left with a bone in one's hand”)
- (idiomatic) to be left with nothing
Usage notes[edit]
luu is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.
Conjugation[edit]
See jäädä.