käydä päinsä

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Contains a rare instance of an instructive plural päin (of pää) taking a possessive suffix.

Verb

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käydä päinsä

  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) to do, be acceptable, (in negative) to be out of question.
    Ei käy päinsä, että hän tulee kotiin vasta klo 23.
    It won't do to have him/her not coming home until 11 p.m. / It's out of question that s/he doesn't come home until 11 p.m./comes home after 11 p.m.

Conjugation

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See käydä.