purra hammasta

Finnish

Etymology

purra (“to bite”) + hammasta (“the tooth”)

Verb

purra hammasta

  1. (idiomatic) to bite the bullet, grit one's teeth

Conjugation

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

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