piti [pit-ee] verb, past tense
- had to do
- could not avoid doing
kukkua [koo-koo-ah] verb, infinitive
- stay awake all night
Idioms:
piti kukkua, informal, exclamatory
a) an exclamation Finnish mothers utter when children, who didn't want to go to sleep at bed time, wake up tired and whinging to go to school - as in: You had to stay up late once again, didn't you?
b) something adults still mutter to themselves when they stay up all night watching TV
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