Morning = Aamu . "Huomenta" Comes from "huominen", which means tomorrow, so saying "Hyvää huomenta" in the morning is like welcoming the person to the next day.
When you started to counting fruits I was waiting you to say "viinirypäleet" or "rypäleet" (grapes), because this funny TV-character Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory show once read the Finnish dictionary on the show and he said it like "raipalee" which sounded so funny. He also read the word "roof" which is "katto", but he said it like "kato" which means totally different, as "failure of crops"/"disappearance" or also "see!/look!" on a spoken language. But you know a lot of Finnish words already and you pronounce them pretty good. Great job!
Katto is good word also to explain local cases -- it can also be translated as ceiling. So if it's kattoon, katossa, katosta it's onto, on and off ceiling (a fly maybe) - katolle, katolla, katolta is onto, on and off the roof.
Lehti is even harder. Like leaf - or something like magazine, tabloid, newspaper... oh and pine and spruce do not have lehti -- they have neulanen (little needle). Then there's certain kind of dough that can have lehti too... We can specify by making compounds, but most often not. Like sisäkatto, ulkokatto, välikatto, vesikatto, satulakatto, huopakatto, harjakatto.... or puunlehti, koivunlehti, aikakauslehti, iltapäivälehti, sanomalehti, kirjanlehti...
I think the best part was how you used the shortened versions of 1 and 2 like how we would use them in day to day speech and not the "official" ones (yks, kaks vs. yksi, kaksi)
Also now that I think of it. Lippu is a good word to help you with pronouncing double consonants. It's basicly li (start making the p sound, but have a tiny pause) pu. For tongue consonants like ss just lengthen it for the little bit that you would pause on lippu.
Seriously a phenomenal job with the pronunciation! I'm totally impressed. Just be careful with the finnish vowels like the "u" versus "y" situation and "a and o" versus "ä and ö". Also concentrate with the double consonants. They are the reason why we finns know you are foreign. There has to be a very subtle pause between them and you have to almost emphasize the latter one.Takes years to master but it can be done. I'm also happy to help with your endeavor to learn finnish in any way I can.
You already know a lot of words, it was nice to hear you say them, you also pronounce them very well! :) And yeah there are lots of words that are similar to each other like vesi and vessa, but I think the pronunciation is actually very different. The double s sounds different from one s, but it might be hard to hear it when it's not your native tongue. And I think vowels can also be hard, for example the word "puu", at first I thought you were talking about this bird called "pyy" (I don't know what it's in English) because your u sounded more like y. "Puu" is actually pronounced just like the word "poo" in English :D
Toilet is vessa. You have to pronounce it with too s, otherwise it means young tree which grows from the old stump, and it is also a mans name and it could be also used meaning child. So Ves-sa, not vesa 😁And mato is worm, but matto is carpet. Mat-to
Good job on most of the pronunciations, I believe you can use WordDive for like 2 weeks for free (www.worddive.com), for example Dave Cad has been using it quite a bit to learn Finnish. Best of luck.
Huomen = morrow, 'jes sayin'. But Yauuzutch, yer prunounzzies be shite, though, lol! Gotta drill yer vowels, d00d3, pure & resounding, then there ya go. "Girl" is not "töttö". :D
Morning = Aamu . "Huomenta" Comes from "huominen", which means tomorrow, so saying "Hyvää huomenta" in the morning is like welcoming the person to the next day.
Very good Finnish.
Thank you Juha!
When you started to counting fruits I was waiting you to say "viinirypäleet" or "rypäleet" (grapes), because this funny TV-character Sheldon Cooper from the Big Bang Theory show once read the Finnish dictionary on the show and he said it like "raipalee" which sounded so funny. He also read the word "roof" which is "katto", but he said it like "kato" which means totally different, as "failure of crops"/"disappearance" or also "see!/look!" on a spoken language.
But you know a lot of Finnish words already and you pronounce them pretty good. Great job!
Haha I can remember that scene! Thank you for the encouragement :)
Katto is good word also to explain local cases -- it can also be translated as ceiling. So if it's kattoon, katossa, katosta it's onto, on and off ceiling (a fly maybe) - katolle, katolla, katolta is onto, on and off the roof.
That's confusing for an English speaker lol you have a cool username haha
Lehti is even harder. Like leaf - or something like magazine, tabloid, newspaper... oh and pine and spruce do not have lehti -- they have neulanen (little needle). Then there's certain kind of dough that can have lehti too... We can specify by making compounds, but most often not. Like sisäkatto, ulkokatto, välikatto, vesikatto, satulakatto, huopakatto, harjakatto.... or puunlehti, koivunlehti, aikakauslehti, iltapäivälehti, sanomalehti, kirjanlehti...
I think the best part was how you used the shortened versions of 1 and 2 like how we would use them in day to day speech and not the "official" ones (yks, kaks vs. yksi, kaksi)
Also now that I think of it. Lippu is a good word to help you with pronouncing double consonants. It's basicly li (start making the p sound, but have a tiny pause) pu. For tongue consonants like ss just lengthen it for the little bit that you would pause on lippu.
Hey thanks for the encouragement:) that's how I was taught lol - Lippu is a good word to use for that!
Seriously a phenomenal job with the pronunciation! I'm totally impressed. Just be careful with the finnish vowels like the "u" versus "y" situation and "a and o" versus "ä and ö". Also concentrate with the double consonants. They are the reason why we finns know you are foreign. There has to be a very subtle pause between them and you have to almost emphasize the latter one.Takes years to master but it can be done. I'm also happy to help with your endeavor to learn finnish in any way I can.
Thank you for that comment - was very kind & yes the double letters is something I try to focus on but it's tricky lol
You already know a lot of words, it was nice to hear you say them, you also pronounce them very well! :) And yeah there are lots of words that are similar to each other like vesi and vessa, but I think the pronunciation is actually very different. The double s sounds different from one s, but it might be hard to hear it when it's not your native tongue. And I think vowels can also be hard, for example the word "puu", at first I thought you were talking about this bird called "pyy" (I don't know what it's in English) because your u sounded more like y. "Puu" is actually pronounced just like the word "poo" in English :D
Yea I'm aware of the double letters together & try my best to pronounce them correctly - I tend to forget lol thanks for the advice :)
"Pyy" would be "a partridge" :) "puu" is pronounced in finnish exactly the same as "poo" in English.
You did pretty well. :) Good job. If you need help, just ask.
Cheers dude! Glad I didn't offend the entire country with my rubbish pronouncation lol
Toilet is vessa. You have to pronounce it with too s, otherwise it means young tree which grows from the old stump, and it is also a mans name and it could be also used meaning child. So Ves-sa, not vesa 😁And mato is worm, but matto is carpet. Mat-to
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I knew it was similar! :)
''huomenta'' means same as ''hyvää huomenta'' (good morning)
Thanks!
Good job on most of the pronunciations, I believe you can use WordDive for like 2 weeks for free (www.worddive.com), for example Dave Cad has been using it quite a bit to learn Finnish. Best of luck.
Hey thanks for that - will have a look at that site!
What, no swear / dirty words? Usually those are first to learn. :P
Honestly they were the first words Niina taught me lol
There is no such boo-boo that big PERKELE wouldn't fix. :P
Haha it's funny listening to Niina shout that when she's annoyed lol
Huomen = morrow, 'jes sayin'.
But Yauuzutch, yer prunounzzies be shite, though, lol!
Gotta drill yer vowels, d00d3, pure & resounding, then there ya go.
"Girl" is not "töttö". :D