purra hammasta

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Finnish

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Etymology

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purra (“to bite”) + hammasta (“the tooth”)

Verb

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purra hammasta

  1. (idiomatic) to bite the bullet, grit one's teeth

Conjugation

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

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