ottaa lukua

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Finnish

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Etymology

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Literal meaning is "to take the count". The expression comes from the rule in boxing when the referee counts down from ten to zero before declaring a knockout.

Verb

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ottaa lukua (informal)

  1. to pass out
  2. to lie still for a while after receiving a blow

Conjugation

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

See also

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