Finland was a part of Sweden for 600 years, up until 1809. So Finnish has a lot of loan words from Swedish from that time. (Swedish also has some loan words from Finnish, but not as many.) So when learning Finnish you might bump into some Swedish words that has been "finnified",
Finland was a part of Sweden for 600 years, up until 1809. So Finnish has a lot of loan words from Swedish from that time. (Swedish also has some loan words from Finnish, but not as many.) So when learning Finnish you might bump into some Swedish words that has been "finnified",
this is so funny..example..bra in english .means good in swedish but not in english:)