pitää silmäpeliä

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Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

pitää silmäpeliä

Verb[edit]

pitää silmäpeliä

  1. (idiomatic) to give someone the eye, make eyes at (to show flirtatious signs with one's eyes)
    Näin hänen pitävän silmäpeliä kanssani heti, kun astuin huoneeseen.
    I saw him giving me the eye as soon as I entered the room.

Usage notes[edit]

Other verbs that may be used instead of pitää include pelata (to play) and olla (to be).

Conjugation[edit]

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