ottaa yleisönsä

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Finnish

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Etymology

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ottaa (to take) + yleisö (audience) + -nsä (3rd person possessive suffix)

Verb

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ottaa yleisönsä

  1. (idiomatic) to work the room (to interact with one's audience, eliciting the audience's attention and enthusiasm)

Conjugation

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See ottaa. yleisönsä is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative. It also receives a possessive suffix:

possessor singular plural
1st person yleisöni yleisömme
2nd person yleisösi yleisönne
3rd person yleisönsä