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  2. /Negative pronouns in cases (kukaan, mikään)
  3. /sortua

sortua

sortua
to collapse
From Lesson 267:Negative pronouns in cases (kukaan, mikään)·Finnish

Usages of sortua

Katto sortuu, mutta en kuule mitään.
The roof is collapsing, but I don't hear anything.
Kirkko sortuu ilman mitään syytä.
The church is collapsing without any reason.
Yksikään talo ei ole sortunut.
Not a single house has collapsed.
Tukipilarit olivat sortuneet sitä mukaa kun pohjavesi oli noussut.
The support pillars had collapsed as the groundwater had risen.
Sorruin taas kalliiseen heräteostokseen.
I succumbed to an expensive impulse buy again.
Oli hölmöä sortua tuohon houkutukseen.
It was silly to succumb to that temptation.

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