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[sysiheart]

Fun fact instead of saying "rotta" = "rat" when talking about a traitor in Finnish we say "vasikka"

A calf.

A baby cow.

May i say that it sounds way less mean and threatening

Like FUCK U, U FUCKING

[lily-learns-finnish]

Verb of the day: nakittaa

nakittaa- to order someone to do something (colloquial)

-> This verb actually comes from the Finnish word "nakki" (sausage), which can also be used to refer to task or job such as "helppo nakki!" (easy thing / not a problem)

Jos sinulla ei ole aikaa itse, voisitko nakittaa tämän jollekulle? - If you don't have the time yourself, could you assign this to someone?

[siveydensipuli]

-> "nakki napsahtaa" = sausage "snaps", to get assigned a task

Mulle napsahti nakki. - I got assigned a task.

Also a finnish army slang: nakkisuoja = sausage cover, to hide or look busy with something in order to avoid getting assigned any tasks

[suikeroalpi-deactivated20250725]

why are "throat" and "cucumber" the same word in this god-forsaken language. i am not committing murder. let me make salad

[realbrassbtw]

A few weeks ago I changed my discord language to Finnish and here’s some stuff I’ve learned since then that probably isn’t in a standard language course:

They use commas instead of periods for small(?) money amounts and also put the $/€/etc. after the amount, with a space in between ($5.99 -> 5,99 $)

(The space is confusing though because if I put euros into google translate there isn’t a space. It says 5€. But if I write €5.99 it gets translated as 5,99 €).

/kk is per month, like in English we’d do $4.99/mo. Stands for kuukaudessa (I think, according to google. I haven’t encountered this word yet otherwise)

Discord calls friends “kaverit” instead of “ystävykset”. I am not sure why. Synonyms? Slightly different connotations? Wiktionary says kaveri is a more casual word so that’s cool. Maybe like buddy vs. friend?

Time has periods instead of colon. 10:05 is 10.05

The message sent time stamps uses “klo” instead of “kello”, which I’ve since learned is an abbreviation (tänään klo 1.24 -> today at 1:24 (am))

As an aside I had not yet learned how to say today/yesterday in Finnish yet so I’ve learned through Discord

Names of different categories of emoji: ihmiset (people), luonto (nature), ruoka (food), toiminnot (activity), matkailu (travel), esineet (objects), symbolit (symbols), liput (flags)

[homunculus-argument]

Hii I'm asking you this because I've seen you post about Finnish grammar and stuff before. So I'm learning Finnish, and I also use duolingo because like free practice and duolingo keeps giving me this word but they refuse to translate it. Please I need to know what pulla means because in my native language it means dick and the duolingo characters keep asking for this mysterious pulla item with coffee and until I find out all my brain can hear is "i want coffee and dick please"

It's a type of finnish pastry, traditionally offered to visiting guest with coffee. A type of sweet bread roll made from wheat flour and flavoured with cardamom, generally with nib sugar sprinkled on top, as pictured above. They look and sound very simple, but they're surprisingly hard to make. Much like in baking bread, you've got to get the temperatures just right for the dough to rise, because yeast will die out of pure spite rather than let you succeed.

One particular reason why they're so iconic and beloved in Finland is because they take skill to bake and also don't keep well. They're delicious when they're fresh from the oven, but in 48 hours that delicious steaming roll is a solid dry rock that you could use as a makeshift hammer and tastes like crumbs and sadness. So in order to have them fresh, someone has to have baked them specifically for you, or at least the same morning.

You probably would have been satisfied with just the first sentence of this post for explanation, but I got started running my mouth and I'm having fun so I'm going to go on.

Pulla is one of those distinct cultural things that one grows up with that is so mundane and commonplace where you've grown up that it surprises you to hear that it's not universal. In finnish the term for a stereotypical idealised maternal domestic goddess housewife is "pullantuoksuinen kotiäiti" - literally "stay-at-home mother that smells like pulla". I've heard the expression used both as genuinely praising and snidely dismissive way to describe a woman who wants to be a mother and homemaker instead of having a career, but that's how much of a deal pulla is to finnish culture.

You can describe a person as "pulla-scented", and everyone can immediately picture what kind of a person this is. Someone who is a skilled enough homemaker to make good pulla, whose home is warm and welcoming because it smells like freshly baked pulla, which she has baked for you because she loves you.

I have plenty of things I was planning to do today and writing an essay about pulla was not one of them.

[teal-skull]

Sometimes I think about how non fiction books are called "tietokirjat", knowledge books..... Tietokirjallisuus = knowledge literature.....

Finns be like: "This book contains knowledge and facts.... So we call it the knowledge book."

I love my mother tongue.

[finnishpod101]

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[beelearnsfinnish]

Hi :)

I'm also learning Finnish and seeing others learn it motivates me even more! Who can you recommend for watching vlogs?

Hey!! Yess I've seen your posts, same thing here! It's not easy to find people who are learning it so it's always cool to come across other learners :)

About vlogs, gotta say it's content I don't usually watch in my native language or English, but for Finnish seems like the easiest since it's very day to day vocab!

One of the first channels I started watching was KATTIS since when I started I couldn't find almost any videos with the subtitle option and she mixed lots of English expressions and had texts in the screen quite frequently, so it made it a little more enjoyable (I'm so thankful for the youtube subtitle update, lifesaver) Also I find the girl quite funny and her videos are very dynamic! here

Another one of the first channels I came across was Lotta Liikanen. Her videos are a bit longer, way more vibey and aesthetic and little less talking but hey sometimes that's all you need. here

The girl I've been watching the most lately tho is Anni Suvisuo. I'm really liking her videos, they feel bit more "realistic" than others, plus she posts quite frequently. Definitely one of my favs! here

I feel like those channels are the ones I watch more consistently, but I'll drop some names of other girls I'm subscribed to and watch from time to time: Linda Noora, Pauliina, Zane Manninen, Katri Konderla, Laura Rosilla... and honestly anything interesting looking in Finnish that youtube recommends me in an attempt to train the algorithm to stop showing me videos in Spanish haha.

As a little plus, reading is a big hobby of mine so I also like to watch some book related videos, tho I tend to have them more in the background since the vocab, specially when describing plots, is more advanced. Can't wait to be able to understand them a bit more because it's content I really like watching in any language.

For this I'd recommend neareadsnovels, she uploads pretty frequently with quite interesting videos that I'd love to fully understand, but man the girl talks fast haha. Really like her vibes! here

I also watch NuotioBee, pretty nice videos and normally the exact length of my bus trip to work so quite nice! here

Hope this was of any inspiration <3 I'm also happy to hear if you (or anyone!) have any recommendations, I'm always on the lookout for new resources or content for inmersion :)

[yellow-lemon-lime]

sorry for adding, but I just want to add https://suomitube.fi/ which is a list of Finland/Finnish based YouTube channels, divided by kategories and languages. (Just pick suomi under kieli) anyways, gonna subscribe to those channels

[mehilaiselokuva]

i get duolingo not being a great option for learning finnish, but would you say its any good for at least getting one in the habit of using finnish every day and familiarizing themselves with using it (if that makes sense)? or would you still recommend something else?

Hi!

Unless you say things like "I am a wizard." daily, you won't really learn any Finnish that's used daily on Duolingo. It doesn't teach you any casual language, so you wouldn't even be able to hold a native-level conversation in the wild even if you completed the whole course. You'll also get multiple questions about conjugation which Duo fails to teach. You won't be able to conjugate a single word to its fullest potential.

If you can live with that, go ahead!

For daily Finnish input, I'd seriously recommend Yle's selkosuomi news ; and once you get the hang of kirjakieli, move on to watching actual content directed at native speakers like YouTube or podcasts. Whenever I am learning a language I just write whatever the people say down, note any words I don't know, and then point out the main grammar points.

[waronbirds]

I would say that Duolingo is useful as a beginner for learning Finnish; basic vocab, sentence structure, getting used to how it sounds. There are some silly sentences and I would say that it doesn’t always prioritise the most important vocabulary but it does teach the basic things like numbers, animals etc too. It also introduces some important grammar concepts such as the partitive and how to conjugate verbs in present tense.

I started learning a Finnish with Duolingo and once I completed it moved onto higher level resources such as textbooks, courses and YLE selkouutiset. The foundation of Duolingo plus a few supplementary vocab lists was enough to skip the absolute beginners Finnish class and move onto beginners 2.

Selkouutiset is a very good resource but you need to have a pre-existing Finnish framework to get much out of it. But if you’re at the stage where you have a basic foundation, then I would recommend it for daily use. There is also a feature where you can test yourself on your understanding.

[hailhailsatan]

Had another Finnish lesson today and it was so fun ❤️❤️❤️

Learning slowly but surely!

Fav word I've learned so far is "känkkäränkkäpäivä" which is like, 'one of those days', a bad day, where everything's going wrong and you're in a total grump 😂

and every time i'm in a wee huff I say it to remember the meaning 😂

[lily-learns-finnish]

Apparently "metsässä" is the correct for saying "in the forest" but "metsällä" is also a phrase meaning "hunting".

Koira on miesten kanssa metsällä. - The dog is with the men hunting.

[homunculus-argument]

Fun finnish: One old-fashioned term I've heard for a promiscuous man is "huoripukki". So where "huora" is both an ugly word for a professional sex worker and a woman who just has sex recreationally, "pukki" is the term for billy goat. Like the standard word for uncastrated male goat. The same way you call a male moose a "bull moose".

Buck slut.

[mehilaiselokuva]

i hear this phrase around sometimes "anna palaa" and i can't figure out what it means entirely

Hi!

Anna palaa literally means "let (it) burn!"; figuratively, it means something like "go for it!" or "show them!" It's an encouragement sentence.

Beware that you cannot add a pronoun to this saying, so for example "anna sen palaa" would be incorrect!

Note: if you pronounce this without syntactic gemination, you would be saying "Anna is burning". Be sure not to make this mistake either.

[lily-learns-finnish]

Word of the day: muhkea

muhkea = stately, imposing, grand, impressive

"Pomoille muhkeat palkankorotukset, samaan aikaan työntekijöille annetaan potkuja." = Impressive pay rises for bosses, at the same time workers are being fired.

A secondary meaning for "muhkea" is more along the lines of "voluminous" or even "puffy"/"fluffy" or some other word to describe in a positive sense something being voluminous.

"Nämä muhkeat letut maistuvat jälkiruokana tai välipalana." = These fluffy pancakes are delicious as dessert or as a snack.

[iveseenitinmovies]

päivi nimeltä poika eiku

edit of kaino itkonen (ansa ikonen) from a kind of mid finnish film called rakas lurjus. it’s a comedy about two dedicated misogynists who live together (🏳️‍🌈?) being forced to find a tenant during a housing crisis. they don’t want (under any circumstances) a woman under their roof so kaino moves in dressed as a man.

[mehilaiselokuva]

hi, random and oddly specific question i know, but could you possibly share some finnish slang thats like english "lol/lmao/wtf/istg" basically just like phrases or abbreviated words that can help me sound less like a robot cuz rn my finnish is so formal it hurts

Hi!

Finnish people use lol, lmao, wtf, and istg (and all the other English abbreviations) in texting. Most people will understand them as long as you aren't talking to a grandma or something.

However, when speaking, people WILL pronounce many of them as one word, not separate letters. "lmao" will often be pronounced as L-mao (älmao) to conform to Finnish syllable rules. Wtf or istg are never pronounced as words and people will give you "vattefak" or "aisveertugaad" (or something more English-sounding if they are bothered to)

There aren't really many "native" Finnish shortenings, people usually tend to just type everything out (I think we are used to it since our language has so many long words)

ookoo/okei is the longer way to type OK in Finnish.

evvk - "ei vois vähempää kiinnostaa" - I couldn't care less

kvg - "kato vittu googlesta" - fucking google it

mitvit / mit vit - "mitä vittua" - what the fuck

If you really want to sound less like a robot when texting, use puhekieli! (Or a local dialect if you live in Finland!) The unfortunate reality is that if Finnish people want to sound more casual when texting, they often use English and English abbreviations.

If any Finns know some common Finnish texting abbreviations, send them under this post! I genuinely couldn't think of more!

[plantbasedfish]

Some:

stn - saatana - satan

prkl - perkele - another swear word meaning an evil spirit

tms - tai muuta sellasta - ”or something similar/like that”

emt - en mä/minä tiedä - i don’t know

vmp - vittu mitä paskaa - fuck this shit

[siveydensipuli]

hv - haista vittu - fuck you

yms - ynnä muuta sellasta - and something else like that (close to tms)

käty - kämppä tyhjänä - house empty/parents away

vklp - viikonloppu -weekend

yv - yksityisviesti - direct message

and couple of older ones from my youth as an honorable mention:

c8 - seekasi/sekaisin - messed up/crazy

k5 -kooviis/kovis - tough guy /s

[finnishpod101]

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