Hello there. Just a few tips about letters in Finnish. I understand it's easy to mistake Ä with A because many languages use dots to indicate intonation. However it's not the case in Finnish. The letter Ä is a different letter than A. The sound Ä makes is one that exists in English. Ex, cat, hat, bat. So Finnish would write those as kät, hät, bät. The A sound makes a sound more common in British English. Ex, Car, Mars. You wouldn't think of Y and U as the same letter because they look different, but actually the Y sound is written as Ü in other languages such as Estonian or German. So A Ä O Ö U Y are all different letters with different sounds.👍
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen was Finnish president for 25 years. He was an autocrat, firmly believed that he was the only one that could fix problems. He was half right and did keep Finland safe during his tenure but also suppressed press freedoms a bit. It was never full blown dictatorship, people didn't disappear and you were free to say what you wanted but blacklisting was a thing; journalists and writers who revealed too much suddenly could not find anyone to publish them. As close to a "benevolent dictator" as you can get, really. So, our relationship with his legacy is controversial: as long as UKK was in power, Soviets treated us very nicely as he was trusted in Kremlin but Finland was less free than we wanted. He did a lot of "sauna politics", taking Russian diplomats to the Presidential sauna and threw water to the hot stones as long as it took to make a deal... On the other hand, very much old school cool, and on the other hand, an autocrat. He was senile the last years so he did hold on to the power far too long... and did a "soft coup" once to keep it (election shenanigans in the parliament, we used to have the US model of electors who voted the president, now it is straight up popular vote).
Eeeeeh, a little more linguistic detail. "A with two dots" is indeed a "silly" shorthand for describing the letter instead of using the sound it is trying to represent (remembering as well, that even in Finnish there is no 1-to-1 relation between sounds and single letters), but the conventions in typography are a bit different. Legs and stems are continuous parts of the main glyph, but the ¨ (diaeresis, trema) are separate, unconnected additions or diacritics which have some standard way of modifying the function of the main part. There are in fact multiple uses for that notation, "two dots above the letter", a well-known one being the German umlaut, which modifies a back-vowel (your tongue being in the back of your mouth) to a front-vowel (tongue moving forward). (It might replace some old historical notation such as writing a combo ae as ä, hence reducing the instances of combinations of letters referring to a separate phoneme/voice.) In that sense A is the clear originator of Ä, and O is the original form of Ö. That being said, it is often contested if those are letters on their own right, i.e. how many letters exist in the official alphabet. While in German the idea of a transformation is more prevalent, Finnish has more clearly thought of ä and ö (and å which has a different diacritic) as their own distinct letters.
Ä, Ö, and Å are shorthand forms of AE, OE, and AA respectively. The latter letter was risen on top of the former and eventually degenerated into dots and circle.
Also, my little brother and I tend to have a short but funny conversation when we are intending to go somewhere: Menemmekö me ? Me menemme. Shall we go ? We shall go.
Kuusi puuta ja puuta heinää. Haluan tietää millaisella orjapalkalla tämäkin kaveri on töissä täällä vain elääkö hän minun lompastani? Omasta mielestäni hyvin helppo kysymys johon varmaan voi vastata.
I'm not even the most introvert of Finnish people and when the pandemic started, I was, atleast at first, very pleased that I had the great opportunity to stay at home even more than usually. Social media is invented, who needs the stress of meeting other people face to face. :D Just chat with someone typing something via messenger, or log out for days if you want to.
And not a problem using FFP2 mask. No need to put any lipstick and masks are definately more pleasant option than tube in your throuth in ICU, if you happen to be in high risk group due to illness, like I am.
@@apet6752 I once noticed I needed something from the grocery store just before it was about the close. I drove there in a onesie, so I put on the hood of it, a mask and sunglasses and the familiar cashier didn't regognize me 😁
Finnish sisu in action. That was a small part of the global Covid19 chart. Finland made headlines when it had -1 deaths a.k.a someone has been resurrected. Kokoo: gather Koko: the whole Kokko: bonfire Kokoon: together And the rest is the same: "the whole bonfire?" - "the whole bonfire". kokkoKO, this is bonfire- word with a bending that make's it a question.
The joke on school & beer is that they are presented under the same catch phrase, "be ready to school !" . Thus it can - mistankenly - refer to the pupils or the parents to buy beer for the beginning of the school, turning it to a unintentional joke or pun. The moominmeat is a reference to both of the cheese and Moomin being of white colour, soft looiking and plump. There actually is translation on the corner of Katos, katos katos. Look, the shelter disappeared ! It is based on colloquial language, formal being Katso, katos katosi.
I am one of those 23%. It was really nice to drive to work with no traffic and no parking issues. And at work there were only a handful of us that handle sensitive information and couldn't work remotely. Our boss even told us to scatter around the office building to not to infect eachother. The only thing I missed was visiting my 90 yo grandpa.
The finnish Sisu one showed covid death statistics. Finland had a -1 death while other countries had many + deaths. As for the 23% happier with restrictions.....I can totally believe it. During covid I saw many more people out on walks with their friends. People liked working from home instead of having to go to the office. Some work places decided to keep people at home even after covid restrictions were lifted, since it makes people happier and saves the company high rent on office space. The finnish conversation translated was: - Build the whole bonfire. - The whole bonfire? -The whole bonfire. I'm a finn and I don't drink coffee......or alcohol. I'm a finnish horror story ^^'
@@stupidtookmynick Is it same with all alcohol drinks aswell or a personal choice to not drink? But dont you think you can get use to it after some time? Not my problem but just curious
@@greefydod same with alcohol. As a teen I would still try to find some kind of alcohol that I'd enjoy but now as I've gotten older I've just given up. Even those that have barely any alcohol at all (like baccardi and lonkero and ciders) still taste nasty to me so I don't even try. Last time I tried alcohol was some kind of sparkling wine at new years. Sister was like "oooh this is nice and sweet!" and all I could taste was nastyness enough to make me make a weird face and a strong desire to spit it out. It's a very strong reaction. 😓
I made more examples years ago: Älä välitä = Don't care Ala valita = Begin to choose! Älä valita = Don't whine Söin vähän = I ate a little Söin vahan = I ate the wax Soin vahan = I granted the wax Pässi rähisee = The ram roars Passi rahisee = The passport rattles Älä käkätä = Don't cackle Ala kakata = Begin to poo Tuo pönttööni räkäs = That spitted into my bowl Tuo ponttooni rakas = Bring the pontoon, darling Sekö löi väärin? = It hit wrong? Seko loi vaarin? = Nutcase created grandpa? Väärä käsi = Wrong hand Vaara kasi = Danger eight Käsipallo = Handball Kasipallo = Eightball Kauniit sääret = beautiful legs Kauniit saaret = beautiful islands Säästä lapsillesi = Save for your children Saasta lapsillesi = Dirt for your children
To explain the "Näinkö väärin"/"Nainko vaarin" joke, you kind of need to be aware that while the words look similar besides the umlauts (the dots on ä's and ö's), the basic form of each word is different in those two sentences, to such an extent that the latter two words are not even in the same part of speech (or type of word). So let's go through each of the words, their basic forms, and what their conjugation means. Buckle up... First sentence structure is PREDICATE - ADVERB. Second sentence structure is PREDICATE - OBJECT. The subject in both sentences is omitted, because it is implied in the conjugation of the predicate. This kind of omission of the explicit subject is pretty common in Finnish language. In the first sentence, the first word's basic form is "nähdä", or "to see" in English. "Näin" is the singular first person past tense form that combines the meaning of subject, so English translation would be "I saw". In Finnish the subject is encoded into the predicate so while it's possible to say "Minä näin" (I saw), the exact same meaning is preserved with just "Näin". The "ko/kö" particle transforms the verb into a question word, so "Näin_kö" means "Did I see". However, the same particle "ko/kö" is sometimes described as a polite imperative, like if you asked someone to pass you the water on the table, you would say "Saisinko vettä" which technically is a combination of question form and conditional: "Saisin" is "I would get", "Saisinko" is "Could I get". Second word's basic form is "väärä", which means "wrong" or "incorrect", which is an adjective. But "väärin" is an adverb which describes the way of doing something. So, "Näinkö väärin?" means "Did I see wrong?" but the more literative meaning would be "Did I see incorrectly?" On the second sentence, the first word's basic form is "Naida", which in the context of this sentence means "To marry". "Nain" is the singular first person present form (or past, since in this case they are the same...), with the same meaning as "Minä nain" but with the explicit subject omitted because the implied subject is again encoded in the conjugated predicate verb form. "-Ko" -particle at the end is technically of the same question form as in the first sentence, BUT in this case the tense is different and that changes the meaning. Finnish language does not have a specific tense for future, but if you use present tense with a question/conditional imperative form, that can have the same meaning as future tense would in English. So "Nainko" could be translated as both "Do I marry" or "Will I marry" or even "Should I marry", which was the translation used in the memes in this video and with the context I agree with that translation. The second word's basic form is "vaari", which is one of the possible words for grandfather, others being pappa, paappa, ukki, taata, or äijä (the last two being quite archaic and not commonly used). "Vaari" actually derives from Swedish "farfar", which means literally "father's father". So, translating it as "Grandpa" is by itself correct. However, it should be noted that "vaari" can also mean an old guy in general, and even if it refers to someone who is a grandfather, it does not automatically mean the speaker's own grandfather. Now, "vaarin" is technically the genetive case of the noun "vaari", but in the context of the sentence structure it is the object, rather than subject. So, "Nainko vaarin?" should probably be translated as "Should I marry a grandpa?", but because "Nainko" could also be in past tense, it could also be translated as a direct question, or "Did I marry a grandpa?" As a bonus, the same form "näin" can also mean "like this", like for example if you're showing someone how to do something you could say "Tee näin", which means "Do it like this". And the person being taught could then ask "Näinkö?" Which would mean "Like this?" However, in the context of this sentence, this isn't one of the possible meanings, and that's something you kind of just know when you read the full sentence...
Youre well on your way to becoming a Finn! Maito, well pronounced. And youre not alone with the dry bread thing, I know a kid who talks about kuivaleipä (dry bread) instead of näkkileipä (flat rye bread). She doesnt care for it either. Offering a mug instead of a hug, dude, it doesnt get much more Finnish than that, youve caught the essence of us now :)
There was a research according to what many people said their quality of life was improved by the covid restrictions! I get that. Life is so hectic these days. But you had to stay home, avoid other people, work from home if you could... many people liked that. It gave a break from their ordinary, hectic life. I have to say I felt so too :)
As a finn myself these memes are incredibly hilarious Also the conversation in english "put the whole bonfire together" "the whole bonfire?" "the whole bonfire" Or something like that
I love this, you have very finnish way of reacting these memes! Hard to explain, but something like not overdoing it.. It might the fact you live in "Pyssykylä". You are becoming a true Finn! sorry bout it, but its started, no way back! :D
I had to comment about the lockdown improving life. It was like heaven. You had legit reason to stay away from crowds and places because you could just refer to the lockdowns.
I don’t know whether the statistic relating to restrictions improving quality of life is true or not, but they improved _my_ quality of life. I study in a university and when classes moved online as they had to, I felt AWESOME. I found that interacting online with my classmates was a lot nicer because random zoom rooms meant you got to talk to people that might normally always sit on the opposite side of the classroom so you would never talked to them when physically at the university. There was no feeling of awkwardness trying to find a pair/group either. And I didn’t feel awkward about asking questions when I could type them out in the chat and not need to interrupt the teacher. I could spend the lectures comfortably in my home and not worry about how I look, didn’t need to waste time travelling which I hate especially in the winter and didn’t need to spend time at the crowded (well… crowded in my Finnish opinion 😁) university, which I learned is very draining for me as a person. And I work as a karaoke host so I’m definitely from the more outgoing side of the spectrum. 😂 I can imagine that a lot of people that find certain type of social situations taxing honestly felt like “FINALLY I CAN BE MYSELF.”
A couple of tips for learning a new language, when you got some words and grammar in. 1. Learn the spoken language first. As children we learn that way, and is easier to get in. Listening to the radio and tv, and imitating their speech. This was how I taught myself english as a child, and later Norwegian. 2. If you have Finnish friends, have them talk to you in Finnish, and you reply in English. This teaches you to understand it first, and helps them gwt comfortable with English (too many finns refuse to speak english, claiming they are terrible at it). And switch it up with you speaking finnish, them english. A win win situation for both. Hope this might be of some help.
I'm glad that you specified "you can hold a desent convesatiion" when finnish conversation are like "sup?" "can't complain, I might have some troubles ahead tho" "oh?" "yeah but its gonna be fine" "ok"
8:12 There was -1 deaths lol 12:50 On the top it says valmistaudu kouluun=prepare for school. So logically they are advertising cheaper beer alongside backpacks lol
Those finnish dream homes were actually saunas I think, but very accurate in that sense that I certainly dream of living in a log home by the lake surrounded by the forest.
The Finnish weatherperson (Pekka Pouta) was not any joke video but part of the real news broadcast: ruclips.net/video/8sS7-CfPn6Q/видео.html (if this has been here before, I'm sorry)
7:07, I think those are members of actual Government. Not a metal band BTW. If I'm not entirely incorrect that woman at front is Sanna Marin Finland's prime minister.
About the Tshirt in +4C thing: hi, Norwegian here! I just sat outside in my Tshirt having a beer with my lunch to celebrate the sunshine 😀 it's -2C and now it's snowing again
People are giving you nice comments and encouragements about learning Finnish. Here is mine. The Finnish alphabet is super easy to learn. Finnish is one of the easiest languages to pronounce. Mostly you are doing a great job there. But the accent always comes on the 1st syllable. So instead of soDANkylä it is SOdanKYlä. Everything else about it being one of the most difficult languages is true. But specifically for anyone who speaks for example a Germanic language (English, Dutch, German, etc) or a romance language (Italian, French, Spanish, etc). Obviously it isn't difficult for an Estonian speaker since it is very close to Finnish. One thing that you will find a tiny bit frustrating is that Finns are kind and they want to help and they will often speak English with you. They like to practice their English also. So when you start learning Finnish and want to practice don't be discouraged if they switch the language to English. Your 1st goal is to speak Finnish well enough that they don't do that. And finally, the grammar rules are very complex and they go on forever it seems, but once you learn the grammar rules they are very consistent. Very few exceptions like in other languages. Everyone is rooting for you and willing to help. :)
Unfortunately Finnish isn't that easy to pronounce for native English speakers because of the big differences between Finnish and English spelling/pronunciation. It's pretty ironic as objectively pronunciation is indeed very simply in Finnish, whereas everything else is difficult. It's not surprising, though, since English is the total opposite: English pronunciation is exceedingly difficult but everything else is easy.
Nice video bro, cant relate to some of the memes although ive been living in Finland all my life! Came to mind that You should try some Vaasan ruispalat and put them in a toaster or oven and then a lots of butter and maybe cheese, its not nearly as dry as traditional ryebread, You might like it!:) I dont like dry bread too much neither. Keep up the vids, peace from Jyväskylä!✌😁
The picture of the "metal band", is actually a picture of ministers, including the prime minister. And the sisu stuff was about covid deaths being -1 at some point
10:13 The American Coca-Cola Santa Claus has landed here in Finland too, unfortunately. 12:55 not really. 14:55 There're are so many different rye breads in Finland and many of thoose are not dry at all. It really depends on the bread.
Yeah, Reissumies rye bread is good and not dry if you don't let it dry. A little butter or margarine on top and whatever you like, fish, meat, vegetables, cheese or as is. I personally like to eat this rye bread with gray salmon. (Graavilohi)
the bunny pic "a tent gazebo" "oh, look, the tent gazebo disappeared" katos = well, would you look at that, katos = any type of freestanding cover, katos = the coloqueal form of the past tense of to disappear
About the dots, there was a mistake :D Why do tenses also matter... "Nainko vaarin?" - Did I marry a granpa? "Naisinko vaarin?" - Should I marry a granpa?
Test this one "HYPPYTYYNYTYYDYTYS" I didn't have dyslexia before I moved here. Oh and this word means "Bouncy Cushion Satisfaction" I learned this next one in my language integration course that I took in just over 1 year: Kokoo koko kokko kokoon. Koko kokkoko kokoon? Koko kokko kokoon. A conversation between 2 Finns, one named Kokko. - Kokko (a surname), gather up the whole bonfire! - The entire bonfire? - The entire bonfire. Now will you gather it up?
Edit. Found another one of these after I had written this, although it didn't have the little details. 10:43 basically (bit simplified as for example "kokoo" is not really "put together", but in Finland people tend to shorten and edit words often, another common is the word "sinä" (you) and it is switched to "sä" This also goes most commonly for casual speaking.) Kokoo koko kokko = put the entire bonfire together. Koko kokkoko? = The entire bonfire? Koko kokko. = Yes the entire bonfire. (Closely like another instance where Finns shorten thing leaving the word "yes" out of the sentance.) Laso Ibshould mention that the "kokkoko" the last "ko" is a morfem, which when added behind a word makes it like questioning. Yes I am a Finn indeed.
at 10:44 that thing means ”build up the whole bonfire” or smth then ”whole bonfire?” and then ”Whole bonfire” but like confirming that yes the whole bonfire
Full conversation in Finnish: "Kokoo koko koko kokkoon. Koko kokkoko? koko kokko" Translation full conversation 10:49: Gather the whole bonfire together. Whole Bonfire? -The Whole Bonfire!"
How to have all of them weather warning at same day? Easy. You most likely are not going to encounter them on one place. Notice how North was light blue, Lapland usually gets spring bit later. Same goes with Eastern Finland where icy roads on spring are unfortunatelly a thing. South and West part of Finland had apparently very dry spring where they had to announce warnings. Basically it means that if you plan to burn leafs... pick any other day do it as well as if going to camping or something, you kinda need to be very cautious. Overall i guess it was stormy day and in some areas blackouts can occure... depending how strong the storm is. I do remember seeing meme made about that day. It might be smol country but lot of things can happen during one day.
Finnish school requirements are hard man in elementary school we had to make an article that would be send to the local newspaper. My groups article was chosen and my final grade for finnish was 5 which happens to be the minimum score required in order to not repeat the year...
The creator of these memes ’joel willams’ is a british man who lives in finland with his finnish wife and now children. Im finnish and ive met him a few times since he is my dads old friend. Even tho im just a teen he still is really fun to talk to and can definately start a conversation. Hes hilarious lmao
17:07 instead of using sugar in your coffe try using milk. It is way healthier than with sugar, or you could just drink it black if you don't want to drink it but need caffeine early in the morning
Rough translation of kokoo koko kokko: Build the entire bonfire Entire bonfire? Entire bonfire. Yes im finnish and seems like someone already translated
this is my take on trying to translate this💀 "build the whole bonfire togheter" "whole bonfire?" "the whole bonfire" i dont think that this can be fully translated but thats basically the context. and of course the talk is about juhannus kokko xd ans then the valmistaudu kouluun its "get ready fot school" and then on the news paper was just beer next to the scool stuff
Half of my friends say that covid isolation improved their live either moderately or significally. So, I do not think those numbers lie... Obviously there are also those who had opposite experience.
Tähän voisi lisätä että henkilö jota käsketään kokoamaan kokko voisi olla Okko Kokko.🙂 Kokoa kokko kokoon Okko Kokko. Koko kokkoko? Koko kokko Okko Kokko.
That Finnish sisu meme eas about Covid-19 deaths and all other countries had more deaths than in a previous standings but Finland had a one person coming alive again😂😂
You probably have not read any Moomin books yet? They were written by a Finnish artist Tove Jansson. She created a wonderful world where many different interesting creatures have exciting adventures. They are all translated in English, you can find them in the library. I have two favourites: "The Dangerous Midsummer Night" and The Invisible Child". There is a Moomin World in Naantali, near Turku.
What is Polar Night | A Brief Explanation
ruclips.net/video/4T0nwhPRRkw/видео.html
Hello there. Just a few tips about letters in Finnish. I understand it's easy to mistake Ä with A because many languages use dots to indicate intonation. However it's not the case in Finnish. The letter Ä is a different letter than A. The sound Ä makes is one that exists in English. Ex, cat, hat, bat. So Finnish would write those as kät, hät, bät. The A sound makes a sound more common in British English. Ex, Car, Mars.
You wouldn't think of Y and U as the same letter because they look different, but actually the Y sound is written as Ü in other languages such as Estonian or German. So A Ä O Ö U Y are all different letters with different sounds.👍
Urho Kaleva Kekkonen was Finnish president for 25 years. He was an autocrat, firmly believed that he was the only one that could fix problems. He was half right and did keep Finland safe during his tenure but also suppressed press freedoms a bit. It was never full blown dictatorship, people didn't disappear and you were free to say what you wanted but blacklisting was a thing; journalists and writers who revealed too much suddenly could not find anyone to publish them. As close to a "benevolent dictator" as you can get, really. So, our relationship with his legacy is controversial: as long as UKK was in power, Soviets treated us very nicely as he was trusted in Kremlin but Finland was less free than we wanted. He did a lot of "sauna politics", taking Russian diplomats to the Presidential sauna and threw water to the hot stones as long as it took to make a deal...
On the other hand, very much old school cool, and on the other hand, an autocrat. He was senile the last years so he did hold on to the power far too long... and did a "soft coup" once to keep it (election shenanigans in the parliament, we used to have the US model of electors who voted the president, now it is straight up popular vote).
You wanna know smth
I’m Finnish
Ä and Ö are their own letters.
An Ä is not "an A with dots" anymore than an R is "a P with an extra leg" or an h is "an n with a stem".
GO OFF SERIOUSLY GO OFF 👏👏👏👏 SO TRUE
Eeeeeh, a little more linguistic detail. "A with two dots" is indeed a "silly" shorthand for describing the letter instead of using the sound it is trying to represent (remembering as well, that even in Finnish there is no 1-to-1 relation between sounds and single letters), but the conventions in typography are a bit different. Legs and stems are continuous parts of the main glyph, but the ¨ (diaeresis, trema) are separate, unconnected additions or diacritics which have some standard way of modifying the function of the main part.
There are in fact multiple uses for that notation, "two dots above the letter", a well-known one being the German umlaut, which modifies a back-vowel (your tongue being in the back of your mouth) to a front-vowel (tongue moving forward). (It might replace some old historical notation such as writing a combo ae as ä, hence reducing the instances of combinations of letters referring to a separate phoneme/voice.)
In that sense A is the clear originator of Ä, and O is the original form of Ö. That being said, it is often contested if those are letters on their own right, i.e. how many letters exist in the official alphabet. While in German the idea of a transformation is more prevalent, Finnish has more clearly thought of ä and ö (and å which has a different diacritic) as their own distinct letters.
Ä, Ö, and Å are shorthand forms of AE, OE, and AA respectively. The latter letter was risen on top of the former and eventually degenerated into dots and circle.
There is already an A and if there were other “R”s one would have said a “P with extra leg” your logic is flawed.
As an introvert, the lockdown was like heaven to me. I had a perfect reason to say no and everyone understood.
Same
Lockdown improved my life. More, please
Yeah lol I didn't see any difference to my normal because I had been three years at home with my kid and didn't see anyone. 🤷
Same
@@rebatsuyes!!!
The coversation:
-Kokoo koko kokko kokoon.
-Koko kokkoko?
-Koko kokko.
-Build up the whole bonfire.
-The whole bonfire?
-The whole bonfire.
Also, my little brother and I tend to have a short but funny conversation when we are intending to go somewhere:
Menemmekö me ?
Me menemme.
Shall we go ?
We shall go.
Kuusi puuta ja puuta heinää. Haluan tietää millaisella orjapalkalla tämäkin kaveri on töissä täällä vain elääkö hän minun lompastani? Omasta mielestäni hyvin helppo kysymys johon varmaan voi vastata.
Also, originally it involved name as in Kokko, kokoo koko kokko kokoon :D
23% might be real. Everyone was pumped as hell getting to work remotely. I changed permanently to remote work during covid!
I'm not even the most introvert of Finnish people and when the pandemic started, I was, atleast at first, very pleased that I had the great opportunity to stay at home even more than usually. Social media is invented, who needs the stress of meeting other people face to face. :D Just chat with someone typing something via messenger, or log out for days if you want to.
And not a problem using FFP2 mask. No need to put any lipstick and masks are definately more pleasant option than tube in your throuth in ICU, if you happen to be in high risk group due to illness, like I am.
😳😂
Yup i still like wearing masks to hide behind them lol
@@apet6752 I once noticed I needed something from the grocery store just before it was about the close. I drove there in a onesie, so I put on the hood of it, a mask and sunglasses and the familiar cashier didn't regognize me 😁
NPC much?
Finnish sisu in action. That was a small part of the global Covid19 chart. Finland made headlines when it had -1 deaths a.k.a someone has been resurrected.
Kokoo: gather
Koko: the whole
Kokko: bonfire
Kokoon: together
And the rest is the same: "the whole bonfire?" - "the whole bonfire".
kokkoKO, this is bonfire- word with a bending that make's it a question.
Slovakia had the same -1 covid death
koko also means size
Too bad "kokoo" is misspelled and should be "kokoa". One other possibility could be "kootkaamme" (Roughly "We shall gather")
@@vekeuimonen11 but that would't make the joke fun anymore ;)
@@vekeuimonen11 mutta se o murteella vaa nii ei tartte nussia pilkkua välttämättä.
The joke on school & beer is that they are presented under the same catch phrase, "be ready to school !" . Thus it can - mistankenly - refer to the pupils or the parents to buy beer for the beginning of the school, turning it to a unintentional joke or pun. The moominmeat is a reference to both of the cheese and Moomin being of white colour, soft looiking and plump. There actually is translation on the corner of Katos, katos katos. Look, the shelter disappeared ! It is based on colloquial language, formal being Katso, katos katosi.
And cottage cheese is Moomin minced meat 😂
I am one of those 23%. It was really nice to drive to work with no traffic and no parking issues. And at work there were only a handful of us that handle sensitive information and couldn't work remotely. Our boss even told us to scatter around the office building to not to infect eachother. The only thing I missed was visiting my 90 yo grandpa.
The finnish Sisu one showed covid death statistics. Finland had a -1 death while other countries had many + deaths. As for the 23% happier with restrictions.....I can totally believe it. During covid I saw many more people out on walks with their friends. People liked working from home instead of having to go to the office. Some work places decided to keep people at home even after covid restrictions were lifted, since it makes people happier and saves the company high rent on office space.
The finnish conversation translated was:
- Build the whole bonfire.
- The whole bonfire?
-The whole bonfire.
I'm a finn and I don't drink coffee......or alcohol. I'm a finnish horror story ^^'
You are missing sum'n from your life if you dont drink coffee daamn
@@greefydod my tongue hates bitter stuff. I do like coffee in baked stuff tho, especially with chocolate.
@@stupidtookmynick Is it same with all alcohol drinks aswell or a personal choice to not drink? But dont you think you can get use to it after some time? Not my problem but just curious
@@greefydod same with alcohol. As a teen I would still try to find some kind of alcohol that I'd enjoy but now as I've gotten older I've just given up. Even those that have barely any alcohol at all (like baccardi and lonkero and ciders) still taste nasty to me so I don't even try. Last time I tried alcohol was some kind of sparkling wine at new years. Sister was like "oooh this is nice and sweet!" and all I could taste was nastyness enough to make me make a weird face and a strong desire to spit it out. It's a very strong reaction. 😓
@@greefydod Or alcohol... Moderation in both is good thought...
15:57 they are not the same A ≠ Ä
The dots matter because the letter changes which also means the pronounciation changes.
I made more examples years ago:
Älä välitä = Don't care
Ala valita = Begin to choose!
Älä valita = Don't whine
Söin vähän = I ate a little
Söin vahan = I ate the wax
Soin vahan = I granted the wax
Pässi rähisee = The ram roars
Passi rahisee = The passport rattles
Älä käkätä = Don't cackle
Ala kakata = Begin to poo
Tuo pönttööni räkäs = That spitted into my bowl
Tuo ponttooni rakas = Bring the pontoon, darling
Sekö löi väärin? = It hit wrong?
Seko loi vaarin? = Nutcase created grandpa?
Väärä käsi = Wrong hand
Vaara kasi = Danger eight
Käsipallo = Handball
Kasipallo = Eightball
Kauniit sääret = beautiful legs
Kauniit saaret = beautiful islands
Säästä lapsillesi = Save for your children
Saasta lapsillesi = Dirt for your children
15:40 A, Ä, and Å are different letters! As are O, and Ö..! 😀👉👉
To explain the "Näinkö väärin"/"Nainko vaarin" joke, you kind of need to be aware that while the words look similar besides the umlauts (the dots on ä's and ö's), the basic form of each word is different in those two sentences, to such an extent that the latter two words are not even in the same part of speech (or type of word).
So let's go through each of the words, their basic forms, and what their conjugation means. Buckle up...
First sentence structure is PREDICATE - ADVERB. Second sentence structure is PREDICATE - OBJECT. The subject in both sentences is omitted, because it is implied in the conjugation of the predicate. This kind of omission of the explicit subject is pretty common in Finnish language.
In the first sentence, the first word's basic form is "nähdä", or "to see" in English. "Näin" is the singular first person past tense form that combines the meaning of subject, so English translation would be "I saw". In Finnish the subject is encoded into the predicate so while it's possible to say "Minä näin" (I saw), the exact same meaning is preserved with just "Näin". The "ko/kö" particle transforms the verb into a question word, so "Näin_kö" means "Did I see". However, the same particle "ko/kö" is sometimes described as a polite imperative, like if you asked someone to pass you the water on the table, you would say "Saisinko vettä" which technically is a combination of question form and conditional: "Saisin" is "I would get", "Saisinko" is "Could I get".
Second word's basic form is "väärä", which means "wrong" or "incorrect", which is an adjective. But "väärin" is an adverb which describes the way of doing something. So, "Näinkö väärin?" means "Did I see wrong?" but the more literative meaning would be "Did I see incorrectly?"
On the second sentence, the first word's basic form is "Naida", which in the context of this sentence means "To marry". "Nain" is the singular first person present form (or past, since in this case they are the same...), with the same meaning as "Minä nain" but with the explicit subject omitted because the implied subject is again encoded in the conjugated predicate verb form. "-Ko" -particle at the end is technically of the same question form as in the first sentence, BUT in this case the tense is different and that changes the meaning. Finnish language does not have a specific tense for future, but if you use present tense with a question/conditional imperative form, that can have the same meaning as future tense would in English. So "Nainko" could be translated as both "Do I marry" or "Will I marry" or even "Should I marry", which was the translation used in the memes in this video and with the context I agree with that translation.
The second word's basic form is "vaari", which is one of the possible words for grandfather, others being pappa, paappa, ukki, taata, or äijä (the last two being quite archaic and not commonly used). "Vaari" actually derives from Swedish "farfar", which means literally "father's father". So, translating it as "Grandpa" is by itself correct. However, it should be noted that "vaari" can also mean an old guy in general, and even if it refers to someone who is a grandfather, it does not automatically mean the speaker's own grandfather.
Now, "vaarin" is technically the genetive case of the noun "vaari", but in the context of the sentence structure it is the object, rather than subject.
So, "Nainko vaarin?" should probably be translated as "Should I marry a grandpa?", but because "Nainko" could also be in past tense, it could also be translated as a direct question, or "Did I marry a grandpa?"
As a bonus, the same form "näin" can also mean "like this", like for example if you're showing someone how to do something you could say "Tee näin", which means "Do it like this". And the person being taught could then ask "Näinkö?" Which would mean "Like this?" However, in the context of this sentence, this isn't one of the possible meanings, and that's something you kind of just know when you read the full sentence...
7:30 It's sign of spring. In Northern Finland you can still ski, but in Southern Finland snow has melted and revealed dry grass and forest.
I was in Raattama behind Saana. Iltalehti (or Ilta-sanomat dont remember):"it ìs summer!", raattama: 1 meter snow.
Youre well on your way to becoming a Finn! Maito, well pronounced. And youre not alone with the dry bread thing, I know a kid who talks about kuivaleipä (dry bread) instead of näkkileipä (flat rye bread). She doesnt care for it either. Offering a mug instead of a hug, dude, it doesnt get much more Finnish than that, youve caught the essence of us now :)
There was a research according to what many people said their quality of life was improved by the covid restrictions! I get that. Life is so hectic these days. But you had to stay home, avoid other people, work from home if you could... many people liked that. It gave a break from their ordinary, hectic life. I have to say I felt so too :)
As a finn myself these memes are incredibly hilarious
Also the conversation in english
"put the whole bonfire together"
"the whole bonfire?"
"the whole bonfire"
Or something like that
I love this, you have very finnish way of reacting these memes! Hard to explain, but something like not overdoing it.. It might the fact you live in "Pyssykylä". You are becoming a true Finn! sorry bout it, but its started, no way back! :D
I had to comment about the lockdown improving life.
It was like heaven. You had legit reason to stay away from crowds and places because you could just refer to the lockdowns.
Yes the lockdown improved my quality of life
In 2017 there was one day in April warning of grass fire in south when in the north we had still more or less 1 meter snow.
Learning Finnish is just a journey. I've been living here for five-ish years, and I'm still studying. The language is no joke.
Thank you for fun info and commentary about Finland.
Katos katos katos = look at that, the canopy dissappeared 🤭
Theres also katso kattos katos = look your roof dissapeared
the conversation means: build the whole bonfire.
the whole bonfire?
The whole bonfire.
Love your laugh! So pure and honest :D
I don’t know whether the statistic relating to restrictions improving quality of life is true or not, but they improved _my_ quality of life. I study in a university and when classes moved online as they had to, I felt AWESOME. I found that interacting online with my classmates was a lot nicer because random zoom rooms meant you got to talk to people that might normally always sit on the opposite side of the classroom so you would never talked to them when physically at the university. There was no feeling of awkwardness trying to find a pair/group either. And I didn’t feel awkward about asking questions when I could type them out in the chat and not need to interrupt the teacher. I could spend the lectures comfortably in my home and not worry about how I look, didn’t need to waste time travelling which I hate especially in the winter and didn’t need to spend time at the crowded (well… crowded in my Finnish opinion 😁) university, which I learned is very draining for me as a person. And I work as a karaoke host so I’m definitely from the more outgoing side of the spectrum. 😂 I can imagine that a lot of people that find certain type of social situations taxing honestly felt like “FINALLY I CAN BE MYSELF.”
When you're outside and it has already rained water, snow and the ice balls, and been very sunny. I saw a rainbow that day very nice
A couple of tips for learning a new language, when you got some words and grammar in.
1. Learn the spoken language first. As children we learn that way, and is easier to get in. Listening to the radio and tv, and imitating their speech. This was how I taught myself english as a child, and later Norwegian.
2. If you have Finnish friends, have them talk to you in Finnish, and you reply in English. This teaches you to understand it first, and helps them gwt comfortable with English (too many finns refuse to speak english, claiming they are terrible at it). And switch it up with you speaking finnish, them english. A win win situation for both.
Hope this might be of some help.
I'm glad that you specified "you can hold a desent convesatiion" when finnish conversation are like "sup?" "can't complain, I might have some troubles ahead tho" "oh?" "yeah but its gonna be fine" "ok"
8:12 There was -1 deaths lol
12:50 On the top it says valmistaudu kouluun=prepare for school. So logically they are advertising cheaper beer alongside backpacks lol
Finnish sisu meme was about "New deaths: -1" like someone getting back from the death XD
Those finnish dream homes were actually saunas I think, but very accurate in that sense that I certainly dream of living in a log home by the lake surrounded by the forest.
🇫🇮🫡
Oh gio you will get used to rye bread and realise that ruisleipä is the best thing ever
It needs good toppings like cucumber and cheese for example
Glad to see that u enjoyed it! 🤩 There is usually so random names in those kind of "finnishmeme" clips that makes them hard to find..
its best when u are in sauna and warm up and then go rolling inte snow its refreshing
i never see anyone reactin to things about Finland so this made me very happy
8:09 "New Deaths" -1. I guess someone was tired of being dead.
The Finnish weatherperson (Pekka Pouta) was not any joke video but part of the real news broadcast: ruclips.net/video/8sS7-CfPn6Q/видео.html (if this has been here before, I'm sorry)
7:07, I think those are members of actual Government. Not a metal band BTW. If I'm not entirely incorrect that woman at front is Sanna Marin Finland's prime minister.
Hopefully we see soon video where you're learning Finnish :)
About the Tshirt in +4C thing: hi, Norwegian here! I just sat outside in my Tshirt having a beer with my lunch to celebrate the sunshine 😀 it's -2C and now it's snowing again
Im a finn and i just gotta say i LOVE your detication on learnind the finnish language and culture. Love ur vids man, keep them coming all right :DD
I think "Icy roads" sign means bad weather on roads. Wind and heavy rain can do that.
The forecast was real on tv; ” Winter is coming”!
Hello from Finland 🇫🇮
People are giving you nice comments and encouragements about learning Finnish. Here is mine. The Finnish alphabet is super easy to learn. Finnish is one of the easiest languages to pronounce. Mostly you are doing a great job there.
But the accent always comes on the 1st syllable. So instead of soDANkylä it is SOdanKYlä.
Everything else about it being one of the most difficult languages is true. But specifically for anyone who speaks for example a Germanic language (English, Dutch, German, etc) or a romance language (Italian, French, Spanish, etc). Obviously it isn't difficult for an Estonian speaker since it is very close to Finnish.
One thing that you will find a tiny bit frustrating is that Finns are kind and they want to help and they will often speak English with you. They like to practice their English also. So when you start learning Finnish and want to practice don't be discouraged if they switch the language to English.
Your 1st goal is to speak Finnish well enough that they don't do that.
And finally, the grammar rules are very complex and they go on forever it seems, but once you learn the grammar rules they are very consistent. Very few exceptions like in other languages.
Everyone is rooting for you and willing to help. :)
Unfortunately Finnish isn't that easy to pronounce for native English speakers because of the big differences between Finnish and English spelling/pronunciation. It's pretty ironic as objectively pronunciation is indeed very simply in Finnish, whereas everything else is difficult. It's not surprising, though, since English is the total opposite: English pronunciation is exceedingly difficult but everything else is easy.
Your laugh is contagious lmao😂
Thank you for correcting that "garbage" thing. 😉
3:21 "I want a lake"
ME: "WHO GON' TELL HIM ?" 🤣🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
mosquitoes: "meeee... meeee... meeee"
Nice video bro, cant relate to some of the memes although ive been living in Finland all my life! Came to mind that You should try some Vaasan ruispalat and put them in a toaster or oven and then a lots of butter and maybe cheese, its not nearly as dry as traditional ryebread, You might like it!:) I dont like dry bread too much neither. Keep up the vids, peace from Jyväskylä!✌😁
That Google translate one... Hahahahahaahahaaaaaa Hahahahaha Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.............
the full conversation is assemble the whole bonfire
The whole bonfire?
the whole bonfire
The picture of the "metal band", is actually a picture of ministers, including the prime minister. And the sisu stuff was about covid deaths being -1 at some point
10:43
"Build up the whole bonfire."
"The whole bonfire?"
"(yes,) the whole bonfire."
10:13 The American Coca-Cola Santa Claus has landed here in Finland too, unfortunately. 12:55 not really. 14:55 There're are so many different rye breads in Finland and many of thoose are not dry at all. It really depends on the bread.
The American Coca-Cola Santa Claus was drawn by a Finn, fortunately (Haddon Sundblom, father from Ahvenanmaa).
Yeah, Reissumies rye bread is good and not dry if you don't let it dry. A little butter or margarine on top and whatever you like, fish, meat, vegetables, cheese or as is. I personally like to eat this rye bread with gray salmon. (Graavilohi)
I hope you will do some finnish learning on RUclips. Well done!
i hope so too
The coldest temperature this year that i remember it was like -37C° in Kuopio. It was COLD that day.
It is pointless to learn Finnish lanquage because nobody talk. 🤣
Oletko aivan varma asiasta?
10:46
A rough translation
-Build the whole bonfire together.
-The whole bonfire?
-The whole bonfire.
In Finland we don't need CCTVs. We have so called Ulla Taalasmaa in every house :D
not shitting you me and my gf have been WAAAYYYYY happier since the lockdowns so you don't have to go anywhere 😅🤣🤣
not travel though but EVERYTHING else!
😂
6:58 the joke is that it is the picture of our ministers, in the middle is Sanna Marin, our prime minister
I dunno, those Finnish dream houses are too close together. 🤔
I need my space!!! 😬
the bunny pic
"a tent gazebo"
"oh, look, the tent gazebo disappeared" katos = well, would you look at that, katos = any type of freestanding cover, katos = the coloqueal form of the past tense of to disappear
10:00 in Finland I don't call it Moomin meat
It is facts, lockdown was awesome!
About the dots, there was a mistake :D Why do tenses also matter...
"Nainko vaarin?" - Did I marry a granpa?
"Naisinko vaarin?" - Should I marry a granpa?
As a finnish person, yes it do be like that
Test this one "HYPPYTYYNYTYYDYTYS"
I didn't have dyslexia before I moved here. Oh and this word means "Bouncy Cushion Satisfaction"
I learned this next one in my language integration course that I took in just over 1 year:
Kokoo koko kokko kokoon. Koko kokkoko kokoon? Koko kokko kokoon.
A conversation between 2 Finns, one named Kokko.
- Kokko (a surname), gather up the whole bonfire!
- The entire bonfire?
- The entire bonfire. Now will you gather it up?
I love these memes :D
9:00 Yeah that's what I thought too, it has to be false, I think it's more than 23%
A couple of weeks ago I saw a guy cycling in shorts.
Happy to see you enjoyed them 😀👍
Great video and can you try to learn Finnish in a video some day
Edit. Found another one of these after I had written this, although it didn't have the little details.
10:43 basically (bit simplified as for example "kokoo" is not really "put together", but in Finland people tend to shorten and edit words often, another common is the word "sinä" (you) and it is switched to "sä" This also goes most commonly for casual speaking.)
Kokoo koko kokko = put the entire bonfire together.
Koko kokkoko? = The entire bonfire?
Koko kokko. = Yes the entire bonfire. (Closely like another instance where Finns shorten thing leaving the word "yes" out of the sentance.)
Laso Ibshould mention that the "kokkoko" the last "ko" is a morfem, which when added behind a word makes it like questioning.
Yes I am a Finn indeed.
Me, a Finn, watching this video: 😐(aka I like it a lot)
As long as you enjoyed 😥
at 10:44 that thing means ”build up the whole bonfire” or smth then ”whole bonfire?” and then ”Whole bonfire” but like confirming that yes the whole bonfire
Right now it is -12 celcius in Mikkeli, eastern-Finland.
Full conversation in Finnish: "Kokoo koko koko kokkoon. Koko kokkoko? koko kokko" Translation full conversation 10:49: Gather the whole bonfire together. Whole Bonfire? -The Whole Bonfire!"
8:53
off yes, the restrictions did improve my life. I want them back. Please.
How to have all of them weather warning at same day? Easy. You most likely are not going to encounter them on one place. Notice how North was light blue, Lapland usually gets spring bit later. Same goes with Eastern Finland where icy roads on spring are unfortunatelly a thing. South and West part of Finland had apparently very dry spring where they had to announce warnings. Basically it means that if you plan to burn leafs... pick any other day do it as well as if going to camping or something, you kinda need to be very cautious. Overall i guess it was stormy day and in some areas blackouts can occure... depending how strong the storm is. I do remember seeing meme made about that day. It might be smol country but lot of things can happen during one day.
Finnish school requirements are hard man in elementary school we had to make an article that would be send to the local newspaper. My groups article was chosen and my final grade for finnish was 5 which happens to be the minimum score required in order to not repeat the year...
The creator of these memes ’joel willams’ is a british man who lives in finland with his finnish wife and now children. Im finnish and ive met him a few times since he is my dads old friend. Even tho im just a teen he still is really fun to talk to and can definately start a conversation. Hes hilarious lmao
17:07 instead of using sugar in your coffe try using milk. It is way healthier than with sugar, or you could just drink it black if you don't want to drink it but need caffeine early in the morning
12:50 valmistaudu kouluun = get ready for school
School suplises under
24-pack of beer
Rough translation of kokoo koko kokko:
Build the entire bonfire
Entire bonfire?
Entire bonfire.
Yes im finnish and seems like someone already translated
this is my take on trying to translate this💀
"build the whole bonfire togheter"
"whole bonfire?"
"the whole bonfire"
i dont think that this can be fully translated but thats basically the context.
and of course the talk is about juhannus kokko xd
ans then the valmistaudu kouluun its "get ready fot school" and then on the news paper was just beer next to the scool stuff
I have lived in Helsinki for 8 years (currently i live in kuopio) and Helsinki is not a forest other memes are actually really accurate
Youre telling me that you drunk too much COFFEE? My dad needs to drink atleast like 12 cups a day to SLEEP
Hahaha so funny,but so true lol😂
I hate slippery, icy sidewalks in the winter. I also hate angry people here.
Half of my friends say that covid isolation improved their live either moderately or significally. So, I do not think those numbers lie... Obviously there are also those who had opposite experience.
try toasting rye bread, so good
10:45 --- kokko = bonfire
koko kokko = whole bonfire
kokkoo = assemble
koko kokkoko = whole bonfire?
that will explain lol
Tähän voisi lisätä että henkilö jota käsketään kokoamaan kokko voisi olla Okko Kokko.🙂
Kokoa kokko kokoon Okko Kokko.
Koko kokkoko?
Koko kokko Okko Kokko.
And Kokkola has nothing to do with bonfires, it comes from the ancient Finnish word for eagle which is.. Kokko.
@@squidcaps4308 but you dont get the conversation that literally means bonfire gathering.....
So obviously you've never had rye bread freshly from the oven with decent amount of butter on top (that's all it needs).... 😃
9:15 thats true at least i was happier
That Finnish sisu meme eas about Covid-19 deaths and all other countries had more deaths than in a previous standings but Finland had a one person coming alive again😂😂
You probably have not read any Moomin books yet? They were written by a Finnish artist Tove Jansson. She created a wonderful world where many different interesting creatures have exciting adventures. They are all translated in English, you can find them in the library. I have two favourites: "The Dangerous Midsummer Night" and The Invisible Child". There is a Moomin World in Naantali, near Turku.
13:50 earned the like from me.