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erottaa jyvät akanoista
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Finnish
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Verb
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erottaa
jyvät
akanoista
(
idiomatic
)
To
separate the wheat from the chaff
(
to select only that which is of value
)
.
Tässä kaupungissa on paljon ravintoloita, mutta on vaikea
erottaa jyvät akanoista
.
There are plenty of restaurants in this city, but it's difficult to
separate the wheat from the chaff
.
Conjugation
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See
erottaa
.
jyvät
is in the plural and normally in the
accusative case
(which appears identical to the nominative case in the plural), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.
akanoista
is not inflected.
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