olla koira haudattuna

Etymology
Derived from a, which is related to.

This idiomatic expression is almost never used in the infinitive, but also in those rare cases the verb olla means "to be" in the sense of "exist", which is normally expressed using the expression "there is" in English. Normally the Finnish expression is used in the form siinä/siihen on koira haudattuna, whose literal translation would be there is a dog buried there.

Verb

 * 1)  to smell fishy, to seem fishy, to be a catch used when something, such as a deal, seems suspicious

Usage notes
Depending on the context, an appropriate English translation could also be. However, the subject of this English expression is the person noticing that something is suspicious, which must be expressed through other means in Finnish (e.g. through the elative case to express "in someone's opinion").

Conjugation
See ; is not inflected.