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kokeilla kepillä jäätä

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Finnish

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Verb

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kokeilla kepillä jäätä (literally: "to test the ice with a stick")

  1. (idiomatic) to test the waters, raise the flag and see who salutes

Conjugation

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

Synonyms

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