vierittää syy
التعريفات والمعاني
== Finnish ==
=== Verb ===
vierittää syy (literally, “to roll the reason”)
(idiomatic) to scapegoat
==== Usage notes ====
The person or thing being scapegoated is either in the allative case, or alternatively in genitive case and with niskoille (+ possibly possessive suffix).
==== Conjugation ====
See vierittää.
syy 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.