muuttaa mielensä
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Finnish
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]muuttaa (“to change”) + mieli (“mind”) + -nsä (“third person possessive suffix”)
Verb
[edit]- to change one's mind (to decide differently than one had decided before)
- Hän alkoi kiivetä portaita, muutti mielensä, ja kääntyi takaisin alas,
- She started up the stairs, changed her mind, and turned to go back down.
- Kuinka voin saada sinut muuttamaan mielesi?
- How can I make you change your mind?
Conjugation
[edit]See the conjugation table of muuttaa. mielensä is normally in the accusative case (which appears as either the nominative or genitive case depending on the context), but is inflected in the partitive case to express an ongoing or incomplete action or if used in the negative. It also takes the appropriate possessive suffix:
| possessor | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| 1st person | mieleni | mielemme |
| 2nd person | mielesi | mielenne |
| 3rd person | mielensä | |