puhua suunsa puhtaaksi

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Literally, to speak one's mouth clean

Verb

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puhua suunsa puhtaaksi

  1. (idiomatic) to speak one's mind
    Puhu suusi puhtaaksi mieltäsi askarruttavista asioista.
    Speak your mind about the issues weighing on your mind.

Conjugation

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See puhua. suunsa 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. It also takes a possessive suffix:

possessor singular plural
1st person suuni suumme
2nd person suusi suunne
3rd person suunsa

Synonyms

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