syöttää pajunköyttä

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, to feed (someone) with willow rope

Verb

syöttää pajunköyttä

  1. (idiomatic) to lie [with allative ‘to’]

Conjugation

See syöttää. pajunköyttä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.