ottaa etäisyyttä

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Finnish

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Verb

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ottaa etäisyyttä

  1. (idiomatic) to distance oneself [with illative or elative ‘from’]

Usage notes

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Used figuratively more often than not.

Conjugation

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