Useful Finnish sentences - Including swearing

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Kahvin tilaaminen
Ordering coffee

Saisinko kupin kahvia, kiitos?
May I have a cup of coffee, please?

Yksi tummapaahtoinen kahvi.
One darkroast coffee.

Perkele, anna kahvia!
Fuck, give me coffee!
(Devil, give me coffee!)

Puhutaan säästä
Talking about the weather

Mukavan lämmin sää.
The weather is nice and warm.

Onpa kuuma.
It's hot.

Hitto, kahvi on kylmää.
Damn, the coffee is cold.

Yhä puhutaan säästä
Still talking about the weather

Kiva että aurinko paistaa.
It's nice that the sun is shining.

Ei se kauaa kestä. Kohta kuitenkin sataa.
It doesn't last long. Soon it'll rain.

Kyllä on ihan saatanan kirkasta taas.
It's so fucking bright again.
(Yes it's so devilishly bright again.)

Vapaa-aika
Leisure

On mukavaa viettää aikaa puistossa.
It's nice to spend some time in the park.

Vähän on ahdasta, 10 metrin päässä on joku.
It's a little crowded here, there's someone over there, 10 meters away from me.

Miksei noi kaikki muut mene helvettiin!
Why can't everyone else go to hell!
(Why won't all those other people go to hell!)

Lopuksi
Lastly

Tule mukaan oppimaan Suomea taas ensi kerralla!
Join us again next time to learn Finnish!

Ihan sama, tykkää jos tykkäät.
Makes no difference to me, like if you like.
(All the same, like if you like.)

Ei näitä kuitenkaan kukaan lue, vittu ite en ainakaan lukis!
No-one's going to read these anyway, fuck I wouldn't!
(No-one's going to read these anyway, cunt I wouldn't read.)

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Hahaha
Ei näitä kuitenkaan kukaan lue, vittu ite en ainakaan lukis!
:D

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Proper Finnish pessimism.
Kunnon suomalaista pessimismiä.
😁

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I love how it ramps up so rapidly...One second it's all nice and personable, the next it's like fuckety fucking fuckstick, fuckbats, there's someone crowding me in the park from 10 metres away. Lol.

Thanks for the language class.

Perkele is really fuck?

Go get fucked/ Go get perkele'd. Funny.

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I love how it ramps up so rapidly...

:D I know. Tings just are that way.

the next it's like fuckety fucking fuckstick, fuckbats

Oh! This is nice! I have to remember this poemlike pile or chain of swearwords.

Perkele is the devil as is saatana, but in this case I think fuck is better translation. Damn was my other choice but thought it was too mild. Vittu is normally translated fuck but it's actually cunt. Just so you know. :D

Should I add exact translations too? I think I should. I'll add them. :)

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Oh yeah, vittu. I've heard that one. Is it true the word cunt which is considered a very bad word here, is not really thought of in the same way up there? Or is it thought of as the worst of the worst like in most other countries.

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I think vittu is the worst. It used to be just a normal anatomy word like... I don't know, hundred or some decades ago, but now it's a really rude swearword. Some teenagers use it instead of um or a comma or a pause in their sentences or when talking. Like every other word is vittu. But there's a place for that too, especially if something really, really, really bugs you.

My favourite swearword is perkele. Sometimes helvetinperkele. Those mean the devil and the devil of hell. (Are there any other kind?) :D Saatana (the devil, again) is good too but not so powerful as perkele. :D You see I have a very close relationship with devil.

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For some reason I expected Finnish to be more like German. I know it's a Germanic language, but I recognise nothing in those words which would be similar to German. I can almost imagine it being used to cast spells. Maybe because you keep bringing up the devil. 😉

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Actually Finnish isn't a Germanic language. It isn't even in the same tree with all the other indoeuropean languages.
See the images in this link:
https://www.theguardian.com/education/gallery/2015/jan/23/a-language-family-tree-in-pictures

We, Finns, Hungarian and Estonian (finnougric) almost aren't in the same galaxy with the rest of the languages. :D

One of the world famous story tellers and a linguist, Tolkien got inspiration from Finnish language when creating Elvish language.

While Tolkien did struggle with Finnish, he still appreciated it enough to use it as a basis for some of his made-up languages, especially the Elvish language Quenya. Linguistically, it is very close to Finnish, particularly through its use of suffixes to change the meaning of words, and the lack of gendered pronouns. Furthermore, Tolkien also directly incorporated Finnish words into Quenya. For example, the Quenya words ‘tul’ (come), ‘anta’ (give), and ‘pitya’ (small) are almost the same as they are in Finnish. The Ainur, a near immortal race similar to demigods, also appear to derive their name from the Finnish word ‘aina,’ meaning ‘always’.

Source: https://theculturetrip.com/europe/finland/articles/how-tolkien-was-inspired-by-finland/

I think most of us common Finns never truly turned to Christianity when it arrived here with the Swedes few hundred years ago. We only said we'd be good Christians. But we still predict weather from frogs and cast few spells every now and then. :D

Edit:
Here's a link to the global language tree:
https://westernman.org/languages-of-europe/

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