olla jonkun mieleen
Finnish
editVerb
edit- (idiomatic) to be to someone's liking
Conjugation
editSee 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:
possessor | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
1st person | mieleeni | mieleemme |
2nd person | mieleesi | mieleenne |
3rd person | mieleensä |