antaa potkut

Finnish

Etymology

antaa (“to give”) + potkut (“the kicks”)

Verb

antaa potkut

1. to fire [with allative] (to terminate the employment of)

Conjugation

See antaa. potkut is in the plural and normally in the accusative case (which appears identical to the nominative case in the plural), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.

Synonyms

• antaa fudut
• antaa kenkää
• antaa monoa
• erottaa
• irtisanoa
• lempata
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