olla jonkun heiniä

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Finnish

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Verb

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olla jonkun heiniä

  1. (idiomatic) to be someone's game, be someone's business, be someone's thing, be someone's specialty or expertise

Conjugation

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See olla. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, heiniä receives a possessive suffix, and the pronoun can then be dropped if it is a first-person or second-person pronoun; see Appendix:Finnish possessive suffixes § Verb phrases for more:

possessor singular plural
1st person heiniäni heiniämme
2nd person heiniäsi heiniänne
3rd person heiniään
heiniänsä