ottaa kantaa
Finnish edit
Verb edit
ottaa kantaa (idiomatic, intransitive)
- to take a stance (on = illative)
- to comment (on = illative)
- to editorialise/editorialize (express one's opinion as if in an editorial)
Conjugation edit
See ottaa. kantaa is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.