saada alkunsa

Finnish

Verb

saada alkunsa

1. (idiomatic) to keyboard (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

Alkunsa is not inflected, only the possessive suffix changes according to the subject of the clause.