ottaa lämpöä

Finnish

Etymology

ottaa (“to take”) lämpöä (“heat”)

Verb

ottaa lämpöä (informal, idiomatic, intransitive)

1. to warm up (to become physically warmer)
2. to overheat (to become excessively hot)
3. to warm up (to flex one's muscles before exercise or a contest)

   Paikalla ehti ihan mukavasti ottaa lämpöä ja valmistautua.

   At the site there was plenty of time to warm up and prepare.

4. to lose one's temper

Conjugation

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

Synonyms

• (to become physically warmer): lämmetä
• (to overheat): ylikuumeta
• (to flex): lämmitellä
• (to lose one's temper): kiihtyä, suuttua, raivostua