odottaa kuuta taivaalta

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search

Finnish[edit]

Verb[edit]

odottaa kuuta taivaalta (literally, “to expect a moon from the sky”)

  1. (idiomatic) to get one's hopes up, reach for the stars

Conjugation[edit]

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