ottaa etäisyyttä

Finnish edit

Verb edit

ottaa etäisyyttä

  1. (idiomatic) to distance oneself (from = illative or elative)

Usage notes edit

Used figuratively more often than not.

Conjugation edit

See ottaa. etäisyyttä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.