"heittää veivinsä" meaning in Finnish

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Verb

Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], veivini [first-person, possessive, singular], veivimme [first-person, plural, possessive], veivisi [possessive, second-person, singular], veivinne [plural, possessive, second-person], veivinsä [possessive, third-person]
Etymology: From heittää (“to throw away”) + veivinsä (“one's crank”). Possibly from the times before starter motors when the cars had to be started with cranks. Head templates: {{head|fi|verb|cat2=|cat3=|head=heittää veivinsä|sort=}} heittää veivinsä, {{fi-verb|head=heittää veivinsä}} heittää veivinsä, {{tlb|fi|informal|intransitive}} (informal, intransitive) Inflection templates: {{fi-infl-vp-accusative|veivinsä}}
  1. (idiomatic) to bite the dust, to die Tags: idiomatic, informal, intransitive
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  "etymology_text": "From heittää (“to throw away”) + veivinsä (“one's crank”). Possibly from the times before starter motors when the cars had to be started with cranks.",
  "forms": [
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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fi-word-poss",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veivini",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "possessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veivimme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "possessive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veivisi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "possessive",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veivinne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessive",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veivinsä",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "possessive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "verb",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": "heittää veivinsä",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "heittää veivinsä",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "heittää veivinsä"
      },
      "expansion": "heittää veivinsä",
      "name": "fi-verb"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "informal",
        "3": "intransitive"
      },
      "expansion": "(informal, intransitive)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "veivinsä"
      },
      "name": "fi-infl-vp-accusative"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Finnish",
  "lang_code": "fi",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Finnish entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Finnish links with redundant wikilinks",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "langcode": "fi",
          "name": "Death",
          "orig": "fi:Death",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to bite the dust, to die"
      ],
      "id": "en-heittää_veivinsä-fi-verb-wOedbU-r",
      "links": [
        [
          "bite the dust",
          "bite the dust"
        ],
        [
          "to die",
          "to die"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to bite the dust, to die"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "heittää veivinsä"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From heittää (“to throw away”) + veivinsä (“one's crank”). Possibly from the times before starter motors when the cars had to be started with cranks.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "fi-word-poss",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veivini",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "possessive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veivimme",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "possessive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veivisi",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "possessive",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veivinne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "possessive",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "veivinsä",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "possessive",
        "third-person"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "verb",
        "cat2": "",
        "cat3": "",
        "head": "heittää veivinsä",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "heittää veivinsä",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "head": "heittää veivinsä"
      },
      "expansion": "heittää veivinsä",
      "name": "fi-verb"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fi",
        "2": "informal",
        "3": "intransitive"
      },
      "expansion": "(informal, intransitive)",
      "name": "tlb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "veivinsä"
      },
      "name": "fi-infl-vp-accusative"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Finnish",
  "lang_code": "fi",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Finnish entries with incorrect language header",
        "Finnish idioms",
        "Finnish informal terms",
        "Finnish intransitive verbs",
        "Finnish lemmas",
        "Finnish links with redundant wikilinks",
        "Finnish multiword terms",
        "Finnish phrasal verbs",
        "Finnish verbs",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "fi:Death"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to bite the dust, to die"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "bite the dust",
          "bite the dust"
        ],
        [
          "to die",
          "to die"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) to bite the dust, to die"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
        "intransitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "heittää veivinsä"
}

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