ottaa härkää sarvista

Finnish

Etymology

ottaa (“to take”) härkää (“a bull”) sarvista (“from the horns”)

Verb

ottaa härkää sarvista

1. (idiomatic) to take the bull by the horns

Conjugation

See ottaa. härkää is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases. sarvista is not inflected.