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🇫🇮 Stop saying “kyllä” every time you mean yes in Finnish
If you say kyllä 100% of the time when you mean “yes”, then we need to have a chat. I could, in theory, tell you to use joo 80% of the time and kyllä 20% of the time. But that would make this a very short article and probably not a very educational one. But…
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🇫🇮 Is everyone really your “ystävä”?
Your friend from work. Your friend from Finnish class. Your friend you sometimes have a coffee or a beer with. Are they really all your ystävä? I’m not so sure. Now they might be, and if they are, then perhaps you just have a very deep and meaningful social life. And that’s all well and…
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Stop saying “Minä pidän…” when talking about liking something in Finnish
Literally, please do not say “Minä pidän kahvista.” Unless you want to sound like Hyacinth ‘Bucket’ from Keeping up appearances, but the Finnish version.* *closest Finnish reference I could find is as show called “Pokka pitää” aired in late 90’s on YLE. Some of you might need to google this, I mean ask ChatGPT, nobody…
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🇫🇮 Päästä or ehtiä? Is something blocking your way, or Do You Just Not Have Time?
“Can you come at six?” A perfectly normal question in English. Unfortunately, can is doing suspiciously little work here. Are you asking me whether: I have enough time? Whether I am free? Whether my boss will let me leave? Whether there is a bus? or Whether I have somehow become trapped inside Prisma? Finnish is…
