saada vihiä

Finnish

Etymology

saada (“to get”) + vihiä (“scent, whiff”)

Verb

saada vihiä

  1. to get wind, get inkling, get scent (of = elative)
    Sain vihiä heidän suunnitelmastaan.
    I got wind of their plan.

Inflection

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

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