olla jonkun kannoilla

Finnish

Verb

olla jonkun kannoilla

  1. (idiomatic) to be at one's heels, to be on one's heels

Conjugation

See olla. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, kannoilla 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 kannoillani kannoillamme
2nd person kannoillasi kannoillanne
3rd person kannoillaan
kannoillansa

Synonyms

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