tuoda voita leivän päälle

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to bring butter on the bread”

Verb

tuoda voita leivän päälle

  1. (idiomatic, intransitive) to pay the bills

Conjugation

See tuoda. voita is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. leivän päälle is not inflected.

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