kerjätä verta nenästä

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Literally, to ask/beg for blood from one's nose, due to a bloody nose being a common consequence of being punched in the face.

Verb

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kerjätä verta nenästä

  1. (idiomatic) to ask or beg for a knuckle sandwich
  2. (idiomatic, by extension) to ask for it, to ask for trouble

Conjugation

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See kerjätä. verta is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. nenästä is not inflected, but the latter often receives a possessive suffix:

possessor singular plural
1st person nenästäni nenästämme
2nd person nenästäsi nenästänne
3rd person nenästään
nenästänsä