myydä esikoisoikeutensa hernerokasta

Finnish

Verb

myydä esikoisoikeutensa hernerokasta (literally, “to sell one's birthright for pea soup”)

1. (idiomatic) to sell one's birthright for a mess of pottage

Conjugation

• See myydä.
• esikoisoikeutensa is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative. It also receives a possessive suffix:

possessor	singular	plural
1st person	esikoisoikeuteni	esikoisoikeutemme
2nd person	esikoisoikeutesi	esikoisoikeutenne
3rd person	esikoisoikeutensa