ottaa härkää sarvista

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Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

ottaa (“to take”) härkää (“a bull”) sarvista (“from the horns”)

Verb[edit]

ottaa härkää sarvista

  1. (idiomatic) to take the bull by the horns

Conjugation[edit]

See ottaa. härkää is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. sarvista is not inflected.

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