ottaa

Finnish

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vottadak. Cognates include Estonian võtma.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈotːɑːˣ/,
• Rhymes: -otːɑː
• Syllabification^(key): ot‧taa

Verb

ottaa

1. (transitive) to take

   Ota lasi pöydältä.

   Take the glass from the table.

2. (transitive, periphrase) to take, ingest or drink (such as medicine, alcohol or drugs)

   Oletko ottanut jotakin?

   Have you been drinking/taking something?

3. (transitive) to deprive of, bereave of

   Hallitus otti meiltä kaikki vapaudet.

   The government deprived us of all the liberties.

4. (intransitive + illative) to touch, reach down/up to, hang down to, get caught on

   Hame ottaa lattiaan.

   The skirt hangs down to the floor.

5. (transitive) to take on, assume, take as one's task or responsibility to (do) (+ translative or long first infinitive)

   Otin asian hoitaakseni.

   I took on taking care of the matter.

6. (informal, auxiliary) 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.

Usage notes

• (to deprive, bereave): The thing someone is bereaved of is the direct object of the verb and the person bereaved is in the ablative case.

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (deprive, bereave): riistää, viedä

Derived terms

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 2023-07-03

Anagrams

• Aatto, aatot, aatto, oatta, otata, taota

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vottadak. Cognates include Finnish ottaa and Estonian võtta.

Pronunciation

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈotːɑː/,
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈotːɑː/,
• Rhymes: -otːɑː
• Hyphenation: ot‧taa

Verb

ottaa

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. (transitive) to receive
4. (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.

5. (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.

6. (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), Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-Pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 5:

     Kaks pioneeria ottiit olla saattajanna.

     Two of the pioneers took on to be escorters.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

• 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