pitää nenä pinnalla

Finnish

Verb

pitää nenä pinnalla

  1. (idiomatic) to keep one's head above water

Conjugation

See pitää. nenä is normally in accusative case, which appears as nominative or genitive depending on the context, but it is inflected in partitive case for negative or to express an ongoing or incomplete action. pinnalla is not inflected.

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