pelata jonkun pussiin

Finnish

Verb

pelata jonkun pussiin

  1. (idiomatic) to play into someone's hands
    pelata omaan pussiinsa ― to play into one's own hands

Conjugation

See pelata. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, pussiin 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 pussiini pussiimme
2nd person pussiisi pussiinne
3rd person pussiinsa
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