maalata itsensä nurkkaan

Finnish

Etymology

maalata (“to paint”) itsensä (“oneself”) nurkkaan (“into a corner”)

Verb

maalata itsensä nurkkaan

  1. (idiomatic) to paint oneself into a corner
    Kuulustelussa Virtanen maalasi itsensä nurkkaan.
    During the interrogation Virtanen painted himself into a corner.

Conjugation

  • for the verb, see maalata
  • itsensä (= itse + third person possessive suffix -nsä) takes the possessive suffix according to the person of the subject
  • nurkkaan is not inflected
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