maalata itsensä nurkkaan

Finnish

Etymology

maalata (“to paint”) itsensä (“oneself”) nurkkaan (“into a corner”)

Verb

maalata itsensä nurkkaan

(idiomatic) to paint oneself into a corner
Kuulustelussa Virtanen maalasi itsensä nurkkaan.
During the interrogation Virtanen painted himself into a corner.

Conjugation

for the verb, see maalata
itsensä (= itse + third person possessive suffix -nsä) takes the possessive suffix according to the person of the subject:

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

nurkkaan is not inflected

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