nostaa hattua

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Finnish[edit]

Verb[edit]

nostaa hattua (literally: "to raise one's hat")

  1. (idiomatic) to tip one's hat (express or acknowledge respect)
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: nostaa hattua.

Conjugation[edit]

See nostaa. hattua is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.