tehdä mieli

Finnish

Verb

tehdä mieli

1. (transitive, idiomatic, impersonal + genitive or + partitive) to feel like, to would like, to fancy [(with nominals) with partitive ‘what is fancied, or felt like having’; or (with verbs) with first infinitive ‘what one feels like doing’]

   Joskus tekisi mieli juosta karkuun.

   Sometimes I feel like running away.

   Mieli tekisi niin kananugetteja.

   I really feel like [having] 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)