ottaa härkää sarvista

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Finnish

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Etymology

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

Verb

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ottaa härkää sarvista

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

Conjugation

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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.