erottaa jyvät akanoista

Finnish

Verb

erottaa jyvät akanoista

  1. (idiomatic) To separate the wheat from the chaff (to select only that which is of value).
    • Tässä kaupungissa on paljon ravintoloita, mutta on vaikea erottaa jyvät akanoista.
      • There are plenty of restaurants in this city, but it's difficult to separate the wheat from the chaff.

Conjugation

See erottaa. jyvät is inflected in partitive case for negative, while akanoista is not inflected.

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