haastaa riitaa

Finnish

Verb

haastaa riitaa

  1. (idiomatic) to pick a fight, pick a quarrel (deliberately provoke someone into an argument or a fight) [reciprocal or with kanssa or allative ‘with’]

Conjugation

See haastaa. riitaa is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.