pitää mykkäkoulua

Finnish edit

Verb edit

pitää mykkäkoulua

  1. (idiomatic) to give someone the silent treatment (to refuse to speak to someone for an extended period of time)
    Hän varmaankin pitää minulle koko viikon mykkäkoulua.
    She's probably not going to speak to me for the whole week.

Conjugation edit

See pitää. mykkäkoulua is in the partitive case, but is inflected in the genitive in action nouns: see Appendix:Finnish verb phrases.