puhua suunsa puhtaaksi

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to speak one's mouth clean”

Verb

puhua suunsa puhtaaksi

  1. (idiomatic) to speak one's mind
    Puhu suusi puhtaaksi mieltäsi askarruttavista asioista.
    Speak your mind about the issues weighing on your mind.

Conjugation

See puhua. suunsa 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. It also takes a possessive suffix:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person suuni suumme
2nd person suusi suunne
3rd person suunsa

Synonyms

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