vetäytyä kuoreensa

Finnish

Etymology

vetäytyä (“retreat”) + kuoreensa (“into one's shell”)

Verb

vetäytyä kuoreensa

  1. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: vetäytyä kuoreensa: to retreat into one's shell
  2. (intransitive, idiomatic) to withdraw (into oneself), disconnect, zombie out

Conjugation

See vetäytyä. kuoreensa is not inflected, but can receive a different possessive suffix:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person kuoreeni kuoreemme
2nd person kuoreesi kuoreenne
3rd person kuoreensa
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