pistää pyörät pyörimään

Finnish

Verb

pistää pyörät pyörimään (literally, “to make the wheels roll”) (informal)

1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to set things in motion

Conjugation

• See pistää.
• pyörät 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.