lyödä itsensä läpi

Finnish

Verb

lyödä itsensä läpi

  1. (idiomatic) to make a breakthrough, get one's big break
    Madonna löi itsensä läpi 1980-luvulla.
    Madonna got her big break in the 1980s.

Conjugation

See lyödä. itsensä 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. It takes the appropriate possessive suffix:

possessor singular plural
1st person itseni itsemme
2nd person itsesi itsenne
3rd person itsensä
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