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Dakkus · Post by **Dakkus** » Mon Mar 08, 2004 10:04 pm

Fons wrote:
Dakkus wrote:säähavaintopallonilmaisulaitoskeskittymä

juustomakkarasilakkasipulitomaattitonnikalakurkkusukkahikikurpitsaporkkanasinappiketsuppisardiinivoileipä

ehjäksitekemättömyydellänsäkäänköhänkös

What are translations of these words???

I translated them when I said them the first time on in this thread (on page 1)

Aaron · Post by **Aaron** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:31 am

Craft wrote:Olen kuullut, että islannin kieli on vastaavanlainen. Ensimmäiset saagat muistaakseni on kirjoitettu joskus vuoden 1000 tienoilla, olikohan jo sitä ennenkin, ja ne kuulemma ovat nykyislantilaisillekin helposti ymmärrettäviä.

Islannin kieli on vanha vain germaanisten kielten mitassa.

Mielenkiintoinen kuriositeetti: suomen kielessä on paljon sellaisia goottilaisperäisiä sanoja jotka ovat muuttuneet tunnistamattomiksi germaanisissa kielissä. Esimerkiksi goottilainen sana 'skaunis' joka on lainattu suomen kieleen muodossa 'kaunis' (vasta "viime aikoina" kaksi konsonanttia sanan alussa on tullut mahdolliseksi suomen kielessä).

Myöhemmin sana muuttui germaanisissa kielissä suunnilleen tyyliin skaunis

schaunis

schaun

schön.

Flamero · Post by **Flamero** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 8:33 pm

Fundamental wrote:
I didn't know sukkahiki is also food
Maybe it is in Espoo

Yes, how did knew?

It's a traditional delicacy in here.
We usually enjoy of those in holidays...

Klazu · Post by **Klazu** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:45 pm

Flamero wrote:
Fundamental wrote:
I didn't know sukkahiki is also food
Maybe it is in Espoo
Yes, how did knew?
It's a traditional delicacy in here.
We usually enjoy of those in holidays...

:mrgreen::mrgreen:

Fundamental · Post by **Fundamental** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:52 pm

Flamero wrote:
Fundamental wrote:
I didn't know sukkahiki is also food
Maybe it is in Espoo
Yes, how did knew?
It's a traditional delicacy in here.
We usually enjoy of those in holidays...

It must be hard to wait till easter (or do you count weekends as holidays?)

I'm sure it's delicious

Flamero · Post by **Flamero** » Tue Mar 09, 2004 9:56 pm

Fundamental wrote:
Flamero wrote:
Fundamental wrote:
I didn't know sukkahiki is also food
Maybe it is in Espoo
Yes, how did knew?
It's a traditional delicacy in here.
We usually enjoy of those in holidays...
It must be hard to wait till easter (or do you count weekends as holidays?) I'm sure it's delicious

Yes. It has been very difficult to say no for that. But I have been fasting(thats what the dictionary told me

) for days for that. I think I can hold on till easter.

SF3YLO · Post by **SF3YLO** » Fri Mar 19, 2004 6:54 pm

Fons wrote: When do you people use the normal a (without those two dots on it)

When word has an A or O you cant use Ä or Ö, and backwards. With E and I you can use both. Its called back- and frontvocals. It means that if you are speaking a word with back vocals, your tongue doesn't twist into frontvocals. Tongue can twist into centervocals (E and I) from both of these. If you have an compound word, first word can include backvocals but second word can still include frontvocals. Only then "same word" can include front- and backvocals.

And anonymous said this same thing, but i told it little different way

:

Anonymous wrote:That thing where A and Ä cannot be in the same word is called vowel harmony and is maybe not the first thing a foreigner should learn about Finnish even it is a very typical characteristic in Finnish. And there are other vowel combinations that aren´t allowed in the same word as well. So it´s not A and Ä thing.

But the main thing:

A in Finnish is always pronounced like in German word machen
Ä in Finnish is always pronounced like in English word mad