jättää oman onnensa nojaan

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to leave somebody to the support of their own luck”

Verb

jättää oman onnensa nojaan

  1. (transitive) to hang out to dry, to leave to one's own devices
    Minut jätettiin oman onneni nojaan.
    I was hung out to dry.

Conjugation

See jättää. oman and nojaan are not inflected. onnensa takes the appropriate possessive suffix:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person onneni onnemme
2nd person onnesi onnenne
3rd person onnensa
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