saada vihiä

Finnish

Etymology

saada (“to get”) + vihiä (“scent, whiff”)

Verb

saada vihiä

1. to get wind, get inkling, get scent [with elative ‘of’]

   Sain vihiä heidän suunnitelmastaan.

   I got wind of their plan.

Inflection

See saada. vihiä is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.