ottaa selvää

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Finnish[edit]

Verb[edit]

ottaa selvää (intransitive, idiomatic)

  1. to determine, find out (about = elative)
  2. to get to the bottom (of = elative) (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.

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