koettaa onneaan

Finnish

Verb

koettaa onneaan

  1. (idiomatic) to push one's luck, try one's luck

Conjugation

  • See koettaa.
  • onneaan is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. It also receives a possessive suffix:
Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person onneani onneamme
2nd person onneasi onneanne
3rd person onneaan
onneansa