ottaa kantaa

Finnish

Verb

ottaa kantaa (idiomatic, intransitive)

1. to take a stance [with illative ‘on’]
2. to comment [with illative ‘on’]
3. to editorialise/editorialize (express one's opinion as if in an editorial)

Conjugation

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