kaivaa omaa hautaansa

Finnish

Verb

kaivaa omaa hautaansa

  1. (idiomatic) to dig one's own grave

Conjugation

See kaivaa. omaa hautaa is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. It also receives the possessive suffix:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person hautaani hautaamme
2nd person hautaasi hautaanne
3rd person hautaansa