haistaa palaneen käryä
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Literally, “to smell something burning”.
Verb[edit]
- (idiomatic) to smell a rat (to sense something suspicious)
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see haistaa, palaneen, käryä.
Conjugation[edit]
See haistaa. palaneen käryä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.