saada alkunsa
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Verb
- (idiomatic, intransitive) to come into being (to form; to start to exist)
- Sosiologit haluaisivat tutkia, kuinka tämä ilmiö sai alkunsa.
- Sociologists would like to study how this phenomenon came into being.
- Me ihmiset saimme todennäköisesti alkumme Afrikassa.
- We, the mankind, probably came into being in Africa.
Conjugation
See saada. alkunsa is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative. It also takes a possessive suffix:
| possessor | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | alkuni | alkumme |
| 2nd person | alkusi | alkunne |
| 3rd person | alkunsa | |
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