tappaa kultamunia muniva kana

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Finnish[edit]

Verb[edit]

tappaa kultamunia muniva kana

  1. (idiomatic) to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs

Conjugation[edit]

See tappaa; kultamunia is not inflected. muniva kana is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.

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