pitää puhe

Finnish

Etymology

Literally, “to hold a speech”

Verb

pitää puhe

1. to speak, to give a speech, to deliver a speech, to address an audience (to deliver a message to a group) [with elative ‘on’]

   Tänä iltana pidän puheen englanninkielen oikeista ilmauksista.

   This evening I shall speak on the topic of correct English usage.

Usage notes

The expression pitää puhe is regarded as more formal than plain puhua.

Conjugation

• For the verb, see pitää.
• puhe 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.

Synonyms

• puhua

See also

• pitää puheensa