pitää varansa

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to maintain one's room/space”

Verb

pitää varansa

(intransitive, idiomatic) to watch out, watch one's step, be on one's guard, keep one's eyes open
Muista pitää varasi, kun liikut kaupungilla.
Remember to keep your eyes open when you're downtown.

Conjugation

For the verb, see pitää.
varansa is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative. It also receives a possessive suffix:

possessor	singular	plural
1st person	varani	varamme
2nd person	varasi	varanne
3rd person	varaan varansa

Synonyms

(to watch out etc.): olla varovainen

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