ottaa yleisönsä

Finnish

Etymology

ottaa (“to take”) + yleisö (“audience”) + -nsä (“3rd person possessive suffix”)

Verb

(idiomatic) to work the room (to interact with one's audience, eliciting the audience's attention and enthusiasm)

Conjugation

See ottaa. yleisönsä 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. It also receives a possessive suffix:

possessor	singular	plural
1st person	yleisöni	yleisömme
2nd person	yleisösi	yleisönne
3rd person	yleisönsä