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vehicle verb or the choice of a verb belonging to the field of Departure and Arrival.
The use of a departure verb was very prominent in Finnish but applied in varying
degree also in some of the other languages. There is also a possibility of choosing
such a verb in Swedish to refer to a situation expressing travelling in a vehicle, so
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