pitää paikkansa

Finnish

Etymology

pitää (“to hold”) + paikka (“place”) + -nsa (3rd person possessive suffix)

Verb

(intransitive, impersonal) to hold true, be true (to be true, valid or applicable)
Pitää paikkansa!
It holds true. / That's true.

Ei pidä paikkaansa.
That doesn't hold true. / That isn't true.

Conjugation

This impersonal verb is always used in the third person singular, but may be inflected in tense (such as present or past) and mood (such as indicative or conditional). To see the conjugated forms of the verb, see pitää. paikkansa 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.

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