ottaa selvää
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Finnish
[edit]Verb
[edit]ottaa selvää (intransitive, idiomatic)
- to determine, find out [with elative ‘about’]
- to get to the bottom [with elative ‘of’] (to understand, discover the truth about, or solve)
- En tiedä, mitä täällä touhutaan, mutta otan selvää siitä ennemmin tai myöhemmin.
- I don't know what's going on here, but I'll get to the bottom of it sooner or later.
Conjugation
[edit]See ottaa. selvää is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.
Synonyms
[edit]- (to go to the bottom of): selvittää