pitää vettä

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Finnish

Etymology

pitää (to hold) + vettä (water)

Verb

pitää vettä

  1. (intransitive, chiefly impersonal) to hold water; both literally (to not leak) and figuratively (to withstand scrutiny, to be valid)

Conjugation

See pitää; vettä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. Normally used only in the third-person singular.

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