pitää paikkansa
Finnish
Etymology
pitää (“to hold”) + paikka (“place”) + -nsa (“3rd person possessive suffix”)
Verb
- to hold true, be true (to be true, valid or applicable)
- Pitää paikkansa!
- It holds true.
- That's true.
- Ei pidä paikkaansa.
- That doesn't hold true.
- That isn't true.
- Pitää paikkansa!
Conjugation
See pitää. Used only in third person and in infinitive and participle forms. In negative forms nominative paikkansa is replaced with partitive paikkaansa, but the word is not inflected otherwise.