pitää vettä
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Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
pitää (“to hold”) + vettä (“water”)
Verb[edit]
- (intransitive, chiefly impersonal) to hold water; both literally (to not leak) and figuratively (to withstand scrutiny, to be valid)
Conjugation[edit]
See pitää; vettä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. Normally used only in the third-person singular.