pitää puheensa

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, to keep one's talk

Verb

pitää puheensa

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to walk the talk (US) (to do what one said one could do, or would do, not just making empty promises)

Conjugation

See pitää. puheensa 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 also receives a possessive suffix:

possessor singular plural
1st person puheeni puheemme
2nd person puheesi puheenne
3rd person puheensa

See also

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