puhua läpiä päähänsä
Finnish
Etymology
puhua (“speak, talk”) + läpiä (“hole”) + päähän (“to the head”) + possessive suffix; literally "to talk a hole into one's head"
Verb
- (idiomatic) to shoot one's mouth off, to talk through one's hat, to whistle in the dark
- Puhuin läpiä päähäni.
- I was shooting my mouth off.
Conjugation
See puhua. läpiä is in the plural number and in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. päähänsä takes the appropriate possessive suffix:
| possessor | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | päähäni | päähämme |
| 2nd person | päähäsi | päähänne |
| 3rd person | päähänsä | |
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