tehdä oma osuutensa

Finnish

Verb

tehdä oma osuutensa

  1. to do one's part
  2. to keep one's side of the bargain

Conjugation

  • See tehdä.
  • oma 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. The same also applies to osuutensa, which also takes a possessive suffix:
Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person osuuteni osuutemme
2nd person osuutesi osuutenne
3rd person osuutensa
  • In negative (e.g. ei tehnyt omaa osuuttaan (“did not do his/her [own] part”)), the last word is inflected in possessive forms as follows:
Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person osuuttani osuuttamme
2nd person osuuttasi osuuttanne
3rd person osuuttaan
osuuttansa
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