jättää oman onnensa nojaan

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Literally, to leave somebody to the support of their own luck

Verb

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jättää oman onnensa nojaan

  1. (transitive) to hang out to dry, to leave to one's own devices
    Minut jätettiin oman onneni nojaan.
    I was hung out to dry.

Conjugation

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See jättää. oman and nojaan are not inflected. onnensa takes the appropriate possessive suffix:

possessor singular plural
1st person onneni onnemme
2nd person onnesi onnenne
3rd person onnensa
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