olla jonkun kintereillä

Finnish

Verb

olla jonkun kintereillä

  1. (idiomatic) to be at one's heels, to be on one's heels

Conjugation

See olla. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, kintereillä 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:

possessor singular plural
1st person kintereilläni kintereillämme
2nd person kintereilläsi kintereillänne
3rd person kintereillään
kintereillänsä

Synonyms
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