pitää vettä

Finnish

Etymology

pitää (“to hold”) + vettä (“water”)

Verb

pitää vettä

1. (intransitive, chiefly impersonal) to hold water; both literally (to not leak) and figuratively (to withstand scrutiny, to be valid)

Conjugation

See pitää; vettä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. Normally used only in the third-person singular.

Derived terms

• vedenpitävä