vääntää veistä haavassa

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Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Literally, to twist the knife in a wound

Verb[edit]

vääntää veistä haavassa

  1. (figuratively) to twist the knife, to rub salt in the wound, to add insult to injury (to make someone's suffering even worse)

Conjugation[edit]

See vääntää. veistä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. haavassa is not inflected.