pitää kutinsa

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Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

kutinsa (with a possessive suffix), from dialectal mieskuti (assembly (of men)) (when that assembly has decided something, it has become right or true), from dialectal kuti (group (of fish)), which is derived from kutea.

Verb[edit]

pitää kutinsa (idiomatic, intransitive)

  1. to be right, be true
  2. (chiefly in the negative) to (not) hold one's own = to give in, relent

Conjugation[edit]

  • See pitää.
  • kutinsa 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 receives a possessive suffix:
possessor singular plural
1st person kutini kutimme
2nd person kutisi kutinne
3rd person kutinsa
possessor singular plural
1st person kutiani kutiamme
2nd person kutiasi kutianne
3rd person kutiaan
kutiansa