tipahtaa jonkun syliin

Finnish

Verb

tipahtaa jonkun syliin

  1. (idiomatic) to fall into someone's lap

Conjugation

See tipahtaa. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, syliin receives a possessive suffix, and the pronoun can then be dropped if it is a first-person or second-person pronoun; see Appendix:Finnish possessive suffixes § Verb phrases for more:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person syliini syliimme
2nd person syliisi syliinne
3rd person syliinsä
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