tehdä mieli

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Finnish

Verb

tehdä mieli

  1. (transitive, idiomatic, impersonal + genitive or + partitive) to feel like, to would like, to fancy
    Joskus tekisi mieli juosta karkuun.
    Sometimes I feel like running away.
    Mieli tekisi niin kananugetteja.
    I really feel like some chicken nuggets.

Usage notes

  • If there is a subject, it is inflected either in the genitive or the partitive case (depending on telicity). Only the third-person singular forms of the verb are used, even with pronouns:
    Minun teki yli kaiken mieli paeta.
    I felt an overwhelming urge to escape.
    Ei minua oikein tee mieli.
    I don't really feel like it. / I don't really fancy it right now.
  • If the object is a nominal (noun, adjective, etc.), it is inflected in the partitive case. If the object is a verb, the first infinitive form is used.

Conjugation

See tehdä.

Synonyms

  • haluta
  • maistua (subject in the allative case, object in the partitive case)