ottaa silmä käteen

Finnish

Verb

ottaa silmä käteen (literally, “to take an eye in the hand”)

(intransitive, idiomatic) to pay attention more closely
Ota silmä käteen ja katso, sehän on ollut tuossa jo ties kuinka pitkään.
Take a closer look for once, it's been there for who knows how long.

Conjugation

See ottaa. silmä is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative.