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Finnish
Verb
tehdä mieli
- (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)