ottaa lämpöä
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Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]ottaa (“to take”) lämpöä (“heat”)
Verb
[edit]ottaa lämpöä (informal, idiomatic, intransitive)
- to warm up (to become physically warmer)
- to overheat (to become excessively hot)
- to warm up (to flex one's muscles before exercise or a contest)
- Paikalla ehti ihan mukavasti ottaa lämpöä ja valmistautua.
- At the site there was plenty of time to warm up and prepare.
- to lose one's temper
Conjugation
[edit]See ottaa. lämpöä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.
Synonyms
[edit]- (to become physically warmer): lämmetä
- (to overheat): ylikuumeta
- (to flex): lämmitellä
- (to lose one's temper): kiihtyä, suuttua, raivostua