panna päänsä pantiksi

Finnish

Phrase

panna päänsä pantiksi

  1. (idiomatic) to bet one's bottom dollar, to bet one's boots, to not have the slightest doubt

Conjugation

  • For the verb, see panna.
  • pää 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.
  • In addition, pää receives a possessive suffix:
Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person pääni päämme
2nd person pääsi päänne
3rd person päänsä
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