kantaa vettä kaivoon

Finnish

Verb

kantaa vettä kaivoon (literally: "to carry water to the well")

  1. (idiomatic) to carry coals to Newcastle

Conjugation

See kantaa. vettä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.

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