vetää itsensä hirteen
Finnish
Alternative forms
- vetää itsensä jojoon (colloquial)
Etymology
Literally, “to pull oneself to a hanging tree”
Verb
vetää itsensä hirteen (informal, intransitive, reflexive)
- to hang oneself, to commit suicide by hanging
- Synonyms: hirttäytyä, mennä hirteen
Conjugation
- For the verb, see vetää.
- itse 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.
- itsensä also receives a possessive suffix:
| possessor | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | itseni | itsemme |
| 2nd person | itsesi | itsenne |
| 3rd person | itsensä | |
- hirteen is not inflected.
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