jakaa oman käden oikeutta

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Literally, to dispense the justice of one's own hand

Verb

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jakaa oman käden oikeutta

  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) to take the law into one's own hands

Conjugation

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See jakaa. oman käden oikeutta is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.