pestä kätensä

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to wash one's hands”

Verb

pestä kätensä

  1. (literally) to wash one's hands
  2. (idiomatic) to wash one's hands [with elative ‘of’] (to absolve oneself of responsibility or future blame for; to refuse to have any further involvement with)

Conjugation

See pestä. kätensä takes the appropriate possessive suffix:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person käteni kätemme
2nd person kätesi kätenne
3rd person kätensä
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