ottaa selvää

Finnish

Verb

ottaa selvää (intransitive, idiomatic)

  1. to determine, find out (about = elative)
  2. to get to the bottom (of = elative) (to understand, discover the truth about, or solve)
    En tiedä, mitä täällä touhutaan, mutta otan selvää siitä ennemmin tai myöhemmin.
    I don't know what's going on here, but I'll get to the bottom of it sooner or later.

Conjugation

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

Synonyms
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