olla jonkun mieleen

Finnish

Verb

olla jonkun mieleen

  1. (idiomatic) to be to someone's liking

Conjugation

See olla. jonkun stands for "someone", which is inflected in the genitive case. If the person is expressed by using a personal pronoun, mieleen receives a possessive suffix, and the pronoun can then be dropped if it is a first-person or second-person pronoun; see Appendix:Finnish possessive suffixes § Verb phrases for more:

Personal/possessive forms for word in phrase
possessor singular plural
1st person mieleeni mieleemme
2nd person mieleesi mieleenne
3rd person mieleensä
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