pitää peukkua

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to keep one's thumb up”

Verb

pitää peukkua

  1. (idiomatic) to cross one's fingers (to wish someone good luck)

Conjugation

See pitää; peukkua is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.

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