odottaa kuuta taivaalta

Finnish

Verb

odottaa kuuta taivaalta (literally, “to expect a moon from the sky”)

  1. (idiomatic) to get one's hopes up, reach for the stars

Conjugation

See odottaa. kuuta is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.

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