heittää pyyhe kehään

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Finnish[edit]

Verb[edit]

heittää pyyhe kehään (literally: "to throw the towel in the ring")

  1. (idiomatic) to throw in the towel

Conjugation[edit]

  • See heittää.
  • pyyhe 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.