hengittää jonkun niskaan

Finnish

Verb

hengittää jonkun niskaan

  1. (idiomatic) to breathe down someone's neck

Conjugation

  • See hengittää.
  • jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, niskaan receives a possessive suffix, and the pronoun can then be dropped if it is a first-person or second-person pronoun; see Appendix:Finnish possessive suffixes § Verb phrases for more:
Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person niskaani niskaamme
2nd person niskaasi niskaanne
3rd person niskaansa
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