näyttää keskisormea

Finnish

Etymology

näyttää (“to show”) + partitive of keskisormi (“middle finger”)

Verb

näyttää keskisormea

  1. to flick off, flip off, give the finger, flip the bird (to make a rude gesture by extending the middle finger)
    Törmäsin häneen vahingossa, ja hän näytti keskisormea.
    I accidentally bumped into him, and he flipped me the bird.

Conjugation

See näyttää. keskisormea is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.

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