maalata itsensä nurkkaan
التعريفات والمعاني
== Finnish ==
=== Etymology ===
maalata (“to paint”) itsensä (“oneself”) nurkkaan (“into a corner”)
=== Verb ===
maalata itsensä nurkkaan
(idiomatic) to paint oneself into a corner
==== Conjugation ====
for the verb, see maalata
itsensä (= itse + third person possessive suffix -nsä) takes the possessive suffix according to the person of the subject:
nurkkaan is not inflected