juoda pohjat

Finnish

Etymology

From juoda (“to drink”) pohjat (“base, basis”).

Verb

juoda pohjat (colloquial)

1. to take a few drinks at home before going to a bar, such as to save some money

Conjugation

See juoda. pohjat is in the plural and normally in the accusative case (which appears identical to the nominative case in the plural), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.