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shapr
SAATANAA!
Seru666
Torille!
TheExGreatShibaBeast
Saaks jo muka mennä?
KarlMarxOfFinland
Suomi mainittu! Torille.
thenewteddy
just play some my summer car!
positiveleroy
asifwewouldbesomeonebetter
Paska säkä
buttdestroyer
Kyänäio
Zephrman
Gotta be able to talk to the møøse. A møøse bit my sister once
usernamesarenotcomments
Lykkyä pyttyyn
nonfamousperson
I wish signed language was offered in more schools. If I had a nickel for every person who said “I totally wanna lean that!” But don’t.
Commentsaboutyourusername
They usually offer classes at schools for the deaf, or those schools do community outreach. Can I have your autograph?
nonfamousperson
Hey comments! You could, but it my name should be taken literally. There are also some ok online videos and college classes
ParanoidBoeh
Ei tämä nyt niin vaikea kieli ole.
ChristosMylordos
Moni oppii tämän jo lapsena.
varsipieru
Hulluja nuo roomalaiset.
Tubularballs
If it had been a Romance language, he’d have been alright. But this will Finnish him.
JCBalance
Isn't the goal of Romance to eventually Finnish?
BeeAtPeace
*golf clap*
SuddenRandomFinnishGuy
Huomenna ryypätään!
lronMaiden
Miksi jättää huomiseen se, jonka voi aloittaa jo tänään?
ThatGuyWithAScarf
"En puhu suomea" is the only thing I remember from my 3 month internship there. I tried learning but everyone was just talking back in EN.
TargetedAdBot
Sounds like typical problems immigrants have in here. People start speaking english automatically to a foreign person.
jondarane
I worked with a bunch of older Ladys and none of them spoke english, best way to learn, they just talked at me and pointed at stuff.
ramram70
Yet Finnish people are so afraid of making grammar mistakes so they only speak Finnish or don't speak at all, just point fingers.
kaiken1987
Is there any European country other than maybe France where as a tourist it's worth it to learn more than a handful of phrases?
styroxmiekkasankari
It's always worth it.
SajinZero
The only Finnish word I know is Kissa. She was our cat growing up. Good cat though. I would say I drive like a Finn, at least. Minus crashes
BeelzebobRoss
That is the best word.
BlueCanaryInTheOutletByTheLightSwitch
Pfft, everybody knows Finland doesn't exist.
sturm24
Some russian infatrymen might disagree..
BenevolentViking
Ystävällisimmät onnittelut tuntematon ihmisolento! Suomen kieltä yksinkertaistetumpaa kommunikointimetodiahan ei ole olemassakaan!
sittingonthetube4
Laughs in hungarian, learning Arabicly
buskill
At least it’s pronounced as it is spelled.
FiftyShadesOfMascarpone
Yeah, but that's little consolation when it's spelled lentokonesuihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas
Zalminen
Vastatykistömaalinosoitustutkakalustojärjestelmäinsinöörierikoisupseeri.
Latexiom
The downside of this is that there are two distinct Finnish languages as a result.
GussDeBlod
All the Finnish I know I learnt while playing My Summer Car.
Nomelicious
I moved to Finland to be with my boyfriend, currently learning it. My brain is fried after every class.
SlightlyMoreAppropriateUsername
My girlfriend speaks Russian. Apparently the only 2 parts that matter are the start and end. Every other word is interchangeable.
CatsandDnD
Jukolauta.
ChristosMylordos
Pannahinen.
TheMentor86
Wonderful! And I'm part Finnish...
rahbeNoodleBandit
Which part - top or bottom?
AnticlockwiseMetamorphosis
The ass end
TheMentor86
Davies46
the part that finishes ;)
howmanypeopleareonthisdamnwebsite
cheesypundit
The fins
murrrsu
Hopefully liver
csobs
Whenever I hear Finland I think of Jouha Ahola and Janne Virtenan. I didn’t google these so apologies for undoubted spelling errors.
AtsaMattaForMe
VodkaReindeer
The last one is an RV technician.
inbirdculturethisisconsideredadickmove
Janne is the best
SectionF4
That guy is my spirit animal
Paintmealife
Are you saying Finns are animals? Or that guys are animals?
MaleekTheFreak
Humans are animals, so we’re up for grabs as people’s spirit animals.
Varenvel
UwU , daddy , human is my spiwit animal
ChristosMylordos
Jesus fucking christ..
Mafalin
Last one is the only true Finn. :)
nolzvader
First two must have some swedish ancestors somewhere in the tree
capnyesterday
Last one's me. All the time.
ArcaneAlchemist
the first one managed to smile upside down. like he isnt frowning, for sure. but the corners of his mouth are down.
Spotishman
justme2759
jennym123
That ends at the exact perfect moment. +1
Oper8rActual
Finnish Jack O’Neill is not impressed.
Kingstad
Perkele!
PoorSucker
KidShenck
Koiralla Bear
Puolitettupuolituttu
You probably won't need to ask "shouldn't I at least turn into your (pl.) dog?" very often.
zRude
This.
Twinklepot
*Laughs in Husky
Yoijimbo
Since Finnish lacks those small extra words like as, at and from for example, we just add stuff to the end of words
hardlyfatal
Finnish doesn't have prepositions??
tiia3
We do have prepositions but not as much or in the similar way as in English for example. Instead we add letters to the end of the word 1/2
tiia3
or use postpositions. Example: house = talo; to house = taloon
Cedr3000
So Finnish wordt never Finnish?
makeSX
Oh how much I hated this shit in school
nonCanadianGoose
Perkele
nataSdroL666
Saatana
erroniousmaximus
Lol I’m learning japanese. But I also live here and would be an expectation anyway.
Twinklepot
I'm learning a bit for travel in 2022. It appears to be easy to offend if you use a word incorrectly. Is that true or are allowances made?
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Also, they're aware that their language with its many nuances is tough for gaijin, and that they don't fully get their customs.
Twinklepot
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Heh, Pai Mei is Chinese. Borrowing their writing system and shoehorning it into their own was the worst idea.
erroniousmaximus
Not really. There are some words that are really close to each other that really shouldn’t like おしっこ(oshiko/pee) and おしんこ(oshinko/pickles) 1
erroniousmaximus
But there aren’t many cases where you are going to offend someone. If you can speak Japanese at all they’ll mostly be impressed.
Twinklepot
Good to know! Thanks very much! Enjoy your time there.
buttdestroyer
Finnish is easy, I was able to learn it as a kid. You'll be fine.
EnderSwe
Are you still forced to learn Swedish I school?
buttdestroyer
they try to force it but not too many really learn it because not that many use it in their daily lives, but if you meant, is swedish still>
buttdestroyer
a mandatory subject, yes, it is.
EnderSwe
Thanks
zigbigidorlu
Kanye decides where people are from, and he decided he's gonna let you Finnish.
TheExGreatShibaBeast
Me too!!
Bastyyy
Of course you were able to learn it as a kid, kids absorb language like a sponge. But learning it as an adult is a total different story.
buttdestroyer
That's the joke.
TobiFuenke
Thank you buttdestroyer. What a wholesome comment.
Commentsaboutyourusername
HEY! We went out on that "date" and you never Venmoed me the money! I better have it by the time homeroom is done or I'm telling
TheresAGermanWordForThat
If I learn it, will I finally be able to beat Masters of Teräs Käsi?
Visualstimuli
*you'll be fine when you're finnished.
RedLemonSlice
I know a finn. Once we were dringking and I asked him how was "cheers" in finnish. I am 85% sure he just made up a random string of sounds.
buttdestroyer
If he said "Kippis" he didn't make it up. Unless you were drinking like hundreds of years ago when the language didn't exist.
RedLemonSlice
Well he later he translated it to be more or less "I raise a toast to our health, and I need to take a piss". My slavic brain was stunned.
nothebees
Yeah, that's when learning languages is the easiest...
buttdestroyer
that's the joke
MuffinProof
I'm Estonian, our languages are phonetically similar and I can never understand what the fuck y'all are sa3
MuffinProof
Saying
Midgarmerc
Learning languages is astronomically different when you're a kid compared to as an adult
smannikko23127001
In Finland, we call this "reilu meininki"
mrsdowneyjr
That's the joke
TrombeOverride
The secret ingredient is being born and growing up in Finland.
Nevergiv3upneversurrender
Actually, not even. You need to be born in a finnish speaking family too! #finnishswedes
noig
There is one YouTuber (Brit I think) who fell in trap with finn female, spawned offspring and relocated here. And now hes on quest to learn.
noig
https://youtube.com/c/DaveCad
DaShanghaiKid
How do you say Butt destroyer in Finnish?
zeppelins
Ruotsi.
UmmThatCantBeRight
Depends on local dialect, but "persraiskaaja" is quite common in the south (disclaimer: second part of the word is not meant literally).
UmmThatCantBeRight
For example: mun paska mopo on kyl yks vitun persraiskaaja = my shitty motorcycle is a fucking butt destroyer
Bomchickawahwah
Perseentuhoaja.
submr
Pyllyntuhooja!
StevieTheAussie
Phäńńÿfúchér.
effigyoma
That's just German with accents and more umlauts
MyPetPenguinIsLicensedToKill
More like Icelandic
norrlandsguld
I think he used unleashed the spell to create a volcano eruption.
DildoRodeo
Yeah but the English fanny is very different than the German one >.>
buttdestroyer
Many options, takapuolentuhoaja, pepunpirstaloija, hanurinhävittäjä. Choose your favourite!
2000Bodies
Thanks for making me stop studying before I even consider learning that language.
buttdestroyer
When I was 19 I quit playing guitar for like a week after listening to the self titled album of Animals as leaders. These days shit like >
buttdestroyer
that motivates me to practise more.
MyPetPenguinIsLicensedToKill
Takaraivonräjäyttäjä
MyPetPenguinIsLicensedToKill
Kakkareiäntupeeraaja?
MyPetPenguinIsLicensedToKill
Ulosteaukonnujertaja...?
buttdestroyer
tää oli hyvä
IWasACatAllAlong
Now teach us how to pronounce all those... words.
finnishfucker
It's easy just say all the letters in the right order
iraslak
Hyvää työtä
DaShanghaiKid
Kikkeliskokkelismitaslaksit
Perseenrepijä is my favorite, but its more like assripper.
HenryLongfellowIII
You can learn a lot about a culture by how many words they have for something.
buttdestroyer
I made them up. In finnish we have this thing called yhdyssana so you can pretty much make up words as you go by combining them.
AtlasFoodDeliverySystem
teekal
You're right, that *does* seem easy
nolzvader
Oh that's some fiiiine sarcasm sir! Lol ?
Aksuuuh
Pepunpirstaloija ?
goatamon
Kankunkurmoottaja
lronMaiden
Ruskeanreijän runnoja?
OishiiO
And if you are in a profane mood "Perseenpaskoja" will do fine
buttdestroyer
Wow, do you like, text your mom with those fingers or something?
TeamSpicyTacos
They have a double k sound. They were like, your not pronouncing the second k. I'm like, how is this place real??
BenevolentViking
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MetTsqlNfDU
BenevolentViking
Mainly in Finnish the difference between a single and a double letter, be it consonant or vocal, is that with the double letter you linger--
BenevolentViking
--on the letter before continuing the word, whereas with a single letter you just pronounce it quickly.
Kirj4v4
You're* This is a post about languages after all ?
solsactual
Muta, muuta, mutta, muuttaa, 4 different words. Mato is worm matto is rug. Fun. And don't even mention conjugation
SuddenRandomFinnishGuy
Kakka
varsipieru
That was the first thing that came to my mind ?
goatamon
*tirsk*
TeamSpicyTacos
The only cognate I could find was megapussi which means big bag.
Murmull
Iceland does as well but we are also suspected of not existing like the Finns, okur and okkur sound totally different for example
TeamSpicyTacos
How do you do this?? I'll be there next Feb so I will start double kk practice
TurduckenMcNugget
Just make sure you don't stray into kkk practice
jukste
Helps to hyphenate, o-kur and ok-kur. Greets from a Juk-ka.
jukste
Don't really speak icelandic but finnish and swedish. =)
Murmull
same same, mostly except the Danes whatever happened to that language i pray no other language has to endure.
Flamebeanie
I think it would be easiest to divide the word between k's. Like 'takki' -> tak ki, and just to remember pronounce them close enough
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Several languages have double consonants and vowels. ?? penne ?? yatta, kawaii. Often the meaning changes completely without it.
Lichelf
I don't get why people say "meaning changes when you remove it." As if most words don't turn into other words when you remove or add letters
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Some turn into gibberish and u can gess wat it was. Some languages are more prone to confusion. Japanese for one has a ridiculous amount ~
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
of homophones and almost-homophones, which BTW makes it ripe for puns.
Scrotality
In Finnish, "Tapaan Jonin" = I will meet Joni. "Tapan Jonin" = I will kill Joni.
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Heh. How does verb continuation work? “I will meet and/to kill Toni”
Scrotality
Finnish conjugation is complicated to explain. "Tapaan" and "tapan" are first person present tense of "tavata" and "tappaa".
ByThePowerOfSCIENCE
Yes, I've heard that it has a LOT of inflection (the opposite of English).
Scrotality
Your example could be "Tapaan ja tapan Tonin" (I'll meet and kill Toni) or "Tapaan Tonin tappaakseni hänet" (I'll meet Toni to kill him)