pitää paikkansa

Finnish

Etymology

pitää (to hold) + paikka (place) + -nsa (3rd person possessive suffix)

Verb

pitää paikkansa

  1. to hold true, be true (to be true, valid or applicable)
    Pitää paikkansa!
    It holds true.
    That's true.
    Ei pidä paikkaansa.
    That doesn't hold true.
    That isn't true.

Conjugation

See pitää. Used only in third person and in infinitive and participle forms. In negative forms nominative paikkansa is replaced with partitive paikkaansa, but the word is not inflected otherwise.

Derived terms

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