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See also: -ottaa
Finnish
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vottadak (compare Estonian võtma).
Pronunciation
Verb
ottaa
- (transitive) to take [with ablative or elative ‘from’]
- Ota lasi pöydältä.
- Take the glass from the table.
- Ota lasi kaapista.
- Take the glass from the cupboard.
- Otan lasin sinulta.
- I'll take a glass from you.
- (transitive, periphrase) to take, ingest or drink (such as medicine, alcohol or drugs)
- Oletko ottanut jotakin?
- Have you been drinking/taking something?
- (transitive) to deprive of, bereave of [with ablative ‘target’ and direct object ‘of’]
- Hallitus otti meiltä kaikki vapaudet.
- The government deprived us of all the liberties.
- (intransitive) to touch, reach down/up to, hang down to, get caught on [with illative]
- Hame ottaa lattiaan.
- The skirt hangs down to the floor.
- (transitive) to take on, assume, take as one's task or responsibility to (do) [with translative or long first infinitive]
- Otin asian hoitaakseni.
- I took on taking care of the matter.
- (transitive, chiefly in the negative) to (not) want to do, to refuse to do (of inanimate things) [with translative or long first infinitive]
- arvostelu ei ota loppuakseen ― the criticism refuses to die (literally, “...refuses to end”)
- (informal) Used to suggest that the action is sudden or impulsive; used with another verb and connected with ja (“and”).
- Kone otti ja hajosi.
- The machine (just) broke.
- (transitive) to make a copy or record of some kind [with elative ‘of’]
- ottaa kopio ― to make a copy
- ottaa kuva ― to take a photo
- ottaa video ― to record video, take video
Conjugation
Synonyms
Derived terms
verbs
- otaksua
- otattaa
- otella
- ottaa aika
- ottaa aivoon
- ottaa annettuna
- ottaa asiakseen
- ottaa hengiltä
- ottaa käyttöön
- ottaa lukua
- ottaa lusikka kauniiseen käteen (“to swallow one's pride”)
- ottaa mittaa
- ottaa opiksi
- ottaa osaa (“(1) to participate in, take part in; (2) to share feelings with, sympathize with”) (+ illative)
- ottaa parempaan käyttöön
- ottaa päähän
- ottaa rennosti
- ottaa riski (“to take a risk”)
- ottaa selvää
- ottaa silmä käteen
- ottaa tukea
- ottaa vastaan (“to receive, meet, accept”)
- ottaa vastuu (“to take something on”, literally “to assume the responsibility of”) (+ elative)
- ottaa voimille
- ottaa yhteyttä
- ottaa yleisönsä (“to work the room”)
Further reading
- “ottaa”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish] (in Finnish) (online dictionary, continuously updated), Kotimaisten kielten keskuksen verkkojulkaisuja 35, Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 3 July 2023
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Ingrian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *vottadak. Cognates include Finnish ottaa and Estonian võtta.
Pronunciation
Verb
ottaa
- (transitive) to take
- 1936, N. A. Iljin and V. I. Junus, Bukvari iƶoroin șkouluja vart, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva:
- Vera ota muila.
- Vera, take the soap.
- 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:
- Pașa otti isän hatun, pani sen päähää i duumajaa, jot nyt hää on suur.
- Paša took his father's hat, put it on his head and thinks, that now he is big.
- (transitive) to take, ingest, drink
- 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 45:
- Otin miä putelin, join.
- I drank a little from the bottle.
- (transitive) to receive
- (transitive) to accept
- 1936, D. I. Efimov, Lukukirja: Inkeroisia alkușkouluja vart (ensimäine osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 9:
- Kolja otti sen kutsumuksen.
- Kolja accepted this invitation.
- (ditransitive + translative) to turn
- 1937, V. A. Tetjurev, translated by N. J. Molotsova, Loonnontiito oppikirja alkușkoulua vart (toin osa), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 24:
- Mut elokkaat evät voi ottaa söökiks sitä toittua, sentää höö voivat ellää kasvoloin peräst.
- But the animals cannot turn these foods into meals, therefore they can live because of the plants.
- (auxiliary + 1st infinitive) to take on (as one's task) to
- 1936, L. G. Terehova, V. G. Erdeli, translated by Mihailov and P. I. Maksimov, Geografia: oppikirja iƶoroin alkușkoulun kolmatta klaassaa vart (ensimäine osa) [Geography: textbook for Ingrian elementary school third grade (first part)], Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:
- Kaks pioneeria ottiit olla saattajanna.
- Two of the pioneers took on to be [our] escorters.
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
- Fedor Tumansky (1790), “ота”, in Опытъ повѣствованїя о дѣянїях, положенїи, состоянїи и раздѣленїи Санкт-Петербургской губернїи [An experiment of an account of the acts, location, condition and division of the Saint Petersburg gubernia], Краткїй словарь ижерскаго, финскаго, эстонскаго, чюдскаго, и ямскаго нарѣчїя съ россїйскимъ переводомъ [A short dictionary of the Ingrian, Finnish, Estonian, Chud and Yamtian dialects with a Russian translation], page 701
- Ruben E. Nirvi (1971), Inkeroismurteiden Sanakirja, Helsinki: Suomalais-Ugrilainen Seura, page 368
- Olga I. Konkova; Nikita A. Dyachkov (2014), Inkeroin Keel: Пособие по Ижорскому Языку, →ISBN, page 74
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