olla sinut jonkun kanssa

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Finnish

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Verb

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olla sinut jonkun kanssa

  1. (idiomatic) to be on first-name basis with, to be familiar with
  2. (by extension) to be comfortable with someone or something

Conjugation

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See olla. sinut is not inflected. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, kanssa 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 kanssani kanssamme
2nd person kanssasi kanssanne
3rd person kanssaan
kanssansa