ottaa lukua
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Literal meaning is "to take the count". The expression comes from the rule in boxing when the referee counts down from ten to zero before declaring a knockout.
Verb[edit]
Conjugation[edit]
See ottaa. lukua is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.