jakaa oman käden oikeutta

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, to dispense the justice of one's own hand

Verb

jakaa oman käden oikeutta

  1. (intransitive, idiomatic) to take the law into one's own hands

Conjugation

See jakaa. oman käden oikeutta is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.

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