ottaa etäisyyttä

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Finnish[edit]

Verb[edit]

ottaa etäisyyttä

  1. (idiomatic) to distance oneself (from = illative or elative)

Usage notes[edit]

Used figuratively more often than not.

Conjugation[edit]

See ottaa. etäisyyttä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.