poimia rusinat pullasta

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Finnish

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Etymology

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poimia (to pick) + rusinat (the raisins) + pullasta (from a cardamom bread); cardamom bread is a popular sweet baked good in Finland, and it is often baked with raisins which many consider the best part of it.

Verb

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poimia rusinat pullasta

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to cherry-pick (to select only the best from a range of options)

Conjugation

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See poimia. rusinat is in the plural and normally in the accusative case (which appears identical to the nominative case in the plural), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.

Derived terms

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