Idiom
- Idiom
- Iemand de prang/het mes op de keel zetten
- Meaning
- Iemand dwingen te vertellen wat hij niet graag zegt
- Dialect
- Leuvens
- ID
- 4969
Properties
Gloss and translation
Mostly acceptable
Iemand
de
prang/het
mes
op
de
keel
zetten
to force someone to tell something he doesn't want to (Lit.: to put the clamp/knife on someone's throat)
- Alienability of possession
- Inalienable
- How is possession expressed?
- External possession
- Animacy of the open position
- Animate
- Direct object type
- Definite
- General structure
- V DO IO PP
- Is the DO modified (by an adjective)?
- No
- Open position
- IO
- Aspect
- Simple
- Tense
- Present
- Voice
- Active
Possession
Structure
Verbal properties
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