olla jonkun mieleen

Finnish

Verb

(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:

possessor	singular	plural
1st person	mieleeni	mieleemme
2nd person	mieleesi	mieleenne
3rd person	mieleensä