nähdä metsä puilta

Finnish

Etymology

nähdä (“to see”) + metsä (“forest”) + puilta (“from the trees”)

Verb

nähdä metsä puilta

  1. (idiomatic) to see the forest for the trees (to discern an overall pattern from a mass of detail; to see the big picture, or the broader, more general situation)

Conjugation

See nähdä. metsä is normally in accusative case, which appears as nominative or genitive depending on the context, but it is inflected in partitive case for negative or to express an ongoing or incomplete action. puilta is not inflected.

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