B1grammar· 6 min· +25 XP

Liking with pitää + -sta

Here is a lovely quirk of Finnish: to like something, you "hold from it" — the verb pitää plus the elative ending -sta/-stä. The casual synonym tykätä takes the same ending, but rakastaa ("to love") takes the partitive instead. So pidän kahvista ("I like coffee") but rakastan kahvia ("I love coffee").

The three "feelings"

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