Basics of finnish

[fixa46]

I saw the "Basics of Spanish"-thread and decided to do this for fun (Because I'm finnish).

Reallynuffin' much to say but the basic translations... And that our array with the words aren't either same as any other countries.

In finnish alphabet, every single letter is chanted just like in the alphabet.

These english words are basically copied from the other thread.

Finnish - Suomalainen
Yes - Kyllä
No - Ei
Hello - Hei/Terve/Moi
How are you? - Miten sinulla menee?
Good morning - Hyvää huomenta
Good afternoon/evening - Hyvää iltaa
Good night - Hyvää yötä
Goodbye - Hyvästi (Goodbye as forever) / Nähdään (See you-form)
Please - There isn't a basic translation. We use the word as a word for begging only. If we ask that "could you pass the salt, please?"
we'll say
"Voisitko ojentaa suolan?" The word "voisitko" (could you) creates the polite part.
Thank you - Kiitos

And here's some PoPs-themed extra that only idiots are interested about. (Ja tässä hieman PoPs- teemaisia erikoisuuksia joista vain idiootit ovat kiinnostuineita.)

Piece of Pie - Pala piirakkaa (Realise there's no "of"!)

Smart - Viisas / nokkela

Paul's Gaming - Paul pelaa

What Can Go Wrong, Will Go Wrong - Minkä on mahdollista mennä mönkään, menee mönkään

I do game playthroughs mainly, made to entertain with silly and often random humor. - Teen pääasiassa pelien läpipeluita, joita on tehty vain viihdyttämään hassulla ja usein omituisella huumorilla.

This doesn't teach, I know. Just wanted to translate and give some info in case some one is interested to get finnish lessons sometimes (not from me, no sir)

[TeMato796]

Fairly interesting. Finnish is the eponymous member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages. It modifies and inflects the forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence. Finnish is spoken by about six million people who reside mainly in Finland. There are also notable Finnish-speaking minorities in Sweden, Norway, Russia, Estonia, Canada, and the United States. The majority of the population of Finland, 91.51% as of 2006[update], speak Finnish as their first language. The remainder speak Swedish (5.5%), Sami (Northern, Inari, Skolt) and other languages. It has achieved some popularity as a second language in Estonia.

[mitko1251]

][_, [()] ][_, , it's good to learn new stuff, would you be as good to post "how to count"?

Also make a transcription of some letters,
E.G: ä, ö

[fixa46]

EDIT: I'm really sorry, I were tired and understood your post wrong.

One - Yksi
Two - Kaksi
Three - Kolme
Four - Neljä
Five - Viisi
Six - Kuusi
Seven - Seitsemän
Eight - Kahdeksan
Nine - Yhdeksän
Ten - Kymmenen

And every number between 10 and 20 is the same as the number 10 times backwards, but with the letters "toista" with it. Example:

Eleven - Yksitoista
Twelve - Kaksitoista
Thirteen - Kolmetoista...

And then, the numbers between 20 - 100 start with how many tens we already have... then the word "kymmentä" and then t... Aww, damn. You already got it. Example:

Twenty-three - Kaksikymmentäkolme
Sixty-nine - Kuusikymmentäyhdeksän

100 - Sata
1000 - Tuhat
1000000 - Miljoona

I'll explain ä's and ö's later. Really tired right now.

[Rodeschild]

Pretty cool thread, I'll learn a lot about finnish here

[mitko1251]

Yet again, how do you pronounce "ä" and "ö" ?

[fixa46]

Well.. hard to explain. or then not.

"ä" is pronounced in such words as "thank you". The "a" is pronounced is "ä" in finnish. "Thänk jyy".

and "ö".. hmm... I'm not making out any words of english containing this letter even spelled.

[fixa46]

Also, here a finnish music video that you should see and listen if you want to see finnish spelled.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaP5llF-J4U

This is a finnish hard rock band "Larharyhmä". A little old video. It has also one of my favourite finnish rappers, Petri Nygård. The song's about the sudden change of money in Finland.

The video contains pictures of old finnish money and finnish sports, also.

The lyrics (The quality of the video and sound is so bad I didn't even make real sense of some words):

INTRO

Jamma, jamma, jamma, jamma, jamma jamma jamma jaa (These lines were originally from a finnish Eurovision song)

Verse 1:

Suomen kautta viimeinen Sibelius ..(?)..
Chydenius-tasoo, vittu nyt palo pinna
Euro kun markalle kaivaa hautaa
Laskee pitäs osata, ei vittu jumalauta

Nygård:
Se on sitte viimesin juttu millä ne kiusaa meitä
Pienii kolikoita, erikokosia seteleitä
Toivottavasti teosto laskee rahat väärin
Ja Nygård miljoonii määrii euroi käärii

Chorus:

Kruunuilla ruotsista markoilla saksan
Mieluummin vittu vaika Ruplilla maksan

Verse 2:

Yksi valuutta, tusina maita
Meikä ei euroo jakoon laita
Markat meille euroiksi työstää
Ei aihetta oo ees pankkia ryöstää

Nygård:
Luottotiedot päin vittuu, ei korttii saa
Helppohan se on Visaa vinguttaa
Pidän tätä juttuu piinana
Haluun rahani tästä lähtien ruokana tai viinana

Chorus

Verse 2:

Nygård:
Euro vittu sitä tätä, painutaa muuhun
Ihan sikinä rahaa, elän kädestä suuhun
Perse auki teen mitä tahansa saat kusta
Vittuun koko euro kun en edes matkusta

Tietämättömiä silmään alan sahaa
Mulla mielessä paha, alan huijaa rahaa
Oli se sitten vaikka euro valuutta
Suusta alas kaikki rahat, Petri-valuuttaa

Chorus

Verse 3:

..(??)..vaan kuudella jakaa
Kun velkoja en enää perkele takaa
Takaan että petaan niin kuin makaan
Huoraa panen, nollasta sataan

Nygård:
Mitä maksaa maito, bensa tai ratikka?
Vitustako mä tiedän, mulla oli vain vitonen matikka
Vittu just nii, en osaa edes kertotauluu
Kaikki vittu messii, tähän lauluu

Chorus:

Mieluummin vittu vaika Ruplilla maksan
Mieluummin vittu vaika Ruplilla maksan
Mieluummin vittu vaika Ruplilla maksan
Mieluummin vittu vaika Ruplilla maksan

[Vice]

Not sure what was the point of putting that video here...

"ä" is pronounced in such words as "thank you". The "a" is pronounced is "ä" in finnish. "Thänk jyy".

Actually it's more like "thänk juu"

[fixa46]

Not sure what was the point of putting that video here..

Me neither. Just felt like it.

Tai riippuuhan se myös hieman eri murteista tai äännetavoista että onko se "juu" vai "jyy.".

Oops.

And yeah, ö is pronounced every time we say "a" or "an".

[SharpEar]

Oct 31, 2009 18:17:42 GMT TeMato796 said:

Fairly interesting. Finnish is the eponymous member of the Finno-Ugric language family and is typologically between fusional and agglutinative languages. It modifies and inflects the forms of nouns, adjectives, pronouns, numerals and verbs, depending on their roles in the sentence. Finnish is spoken by about six million people who reside mainly in Finland. There are also notable Finnish-speaking minorities in Sweden, Norway, Russia, Estonia, Canada, and the United States. The majority of the population of Finland, 91.51% as of 2006[update], speak Finnish as their first language. The remainder speak Swedish (5.5%), Sami (Northern, Inari, Skolt) and other languages. It has achieved some popularity as a second language in Estonia.

The single most pointless post in the history of Earth, presented for your approval from us here in The Twilight Zone.

Not trying to start a flame war, but it seems like you're just trying to make yourself look intelligent. All of this information, while irrelevant in the extreme, is available from a simple google, of which anyone (yourself included, *nudge, nudge*) can obtain within seconds should they decide to care. Again, not trying to be insulting, but think before you post. Copy-paste =/= intellect.