katkaista siivet

Finnish

Verb

katkaista siivet

  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) to clip someone's wings (someone = either the possessor for siivet, or in ablative)

Conjugation
  • See katkaista.
  • siivet is in the plural and normally in the accusative case (which appears identical to the nominative case in the plural), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.
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