ymmärtää yskä

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to understand the cough”. Coughing, or rather clearing one's throat, is used as a tacit gesture to suggest someone to do something that they should realize they ought to do.

Verb

ymmärtää yskä

1. (idiomatic) to get it, get the message (correctly infer a meaning that is not stated explicitly)

Conjugation

• See ymmärtää.
• yskä 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.