myydä nahkansa kalliisti

Finnish

Verb

myydä nahkansa kalliisti

  1. (idiomatic) to sell one's life dearly

Conjugation

See myydä. nahkansa is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative. It also takes a possessive suffix:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person nahkani nahkamme
2nd person nahkasi nahkanne
3rd person nahkansa