pitää pää kylmänä

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, to keep the head cool

Verb

pitää pää kylmänä

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to keep one's cool
    Antonym: menettää malttinsa

Conjugation

  • See pitää.
  • 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.