olla jonkun heiniä

Finnish

Verb

olla jonkun heiniä

  1. (idiomatic) to be someone's game, be someone's business, be someone's thing, be someone's specialty or expertise

Conjugation

See olla. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, heiniä receives a possessive suffix, and the pronoun can then be dropped if it is a first-person or second-person pronoun; see Appendix:Finnish possessive suffixes § Verb phrases for more:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person heiniäni heiniämme
2nd person heiniäsi heiniänne
3rd person heiniään
heiniänsä
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