ottamista

Ottamista is a Finnish noun that denotes the act or process of taking, obtaining, or procuring something. It is formed from the verb ottaa ("to take") with the nominalizing suffix -minen, producing ottaminen. The form ottamista is the partitive singular, commonly appearing in sentences where the action is indefinite or the object of another verb.

In practical use, ottamista appears in a range of expressions tied to different activities. Common examples include kuvan ottaminen (taking a photograph), näytteen ottaminen (taking a sample), and lääkkeen ottaminen (taking a medicine). It can also refer to wider administrative or legal actions, such as veron ottaminen (tax collection) or maksun ottaminen (charging or collecting a payment). The term therefore functions as a general label for the act of taking something, whether physical objects, samples, information, or obligations.

In Finnish grammar, ottaminen is a verbal noun; its dependent forms, including ottamista, occur according to standard inflection rules for -minen nouns. The choice between ottaminen, ottamista, ottamisen, or other cases depends on the role in the sentence (subject, object, complement) and the surrounding verbs that indicate tense or aspect.

See also ottaa; veron ottaminen; kuvan ottaminen.