Reacting to FINNISH MEMES!
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moomin meme: "I say morning, not good morning because if it was good, I would still be in bed and not talking to people"
It's understandable that he was confused by the "tomorrow", because translators won't understand it.
Because "huomen" is not an actual word outside the phrase "hyvää huomenta" but it closely resembles "huominen", which means "tomorrow". And that's something google translate couldn't pick up on, because "huomen" doesn't refer to "tomorrow" but to the morning.
"Hyvää huomenta" is a fixed expression and always means "good morning", but if you actually, for some reason, wanted to wish someone to "have a good next day/tomorrow", that would be "hyvää huomista".
@@naniyodesu Huomen is a word, and means morning. Though (younger) people don't understand it and so translate machines don't understand it. e.g. google translate is very good, but it does not use old knowledge very much. Unlike wiktionary, which knows very many old Finnish words. A foreigner should use that often.
@@kasperjoonatan6014 Whoops, my mistake then! Didn't know that. That's interesting. I've never ever heard the word "huomen" used on its own.
Concerning every day use of the language though, I don't think it's important to know anyway :)
@@naniyodesu Oh yes it is important! Consider saying to your beloved in the morning in May:
voi rakas, on jo kirkas huomen, ja tuoksuvat kukat tuomen.
She/he will think you are brilliant!
@@kasperjoonatan6014 That's true, but in that case you can understand the meaning from the context by recognizing it as the same word from the phrase hyvää huomenta, just like the moomin meme :D
I mean, I didn't know it was used on its own in actual language use and not just for poetic purposes, but still understood the meme of course.
Explaining the ”waka waka vanha Väinämöinen” meme a bit: So the Finnish epic Kalevala is a collection of stories in poem/song form about Väinämöinen and many other characters and their adventures. One of the most popular ”quotes” of this Kalevala is ”vaka vanha väinämöinen, tietäjä iän-ikuinen” which roughly translates to ”strong old Väinämöinen, an eternal seer/wise man” (and I mean VERY roughly bc some of the words are old and thus very hard to translate). The whole point is that the old Finnish word ”vaka” reminds of the ”waka waka” in the song Shakira made in 2010 😂😂 also you got the translation a bit wrong there, what it basically says in the meme is ”therapist: waka waka old Väinämöinen is not real, he can’t hurt you”.
well explained. and i think the whole "therapist: thing x isn't real, he cant hurt you" originated from "Skull Cow Isn't Real, It Can't Hurt You".
An excellent explanation, Inka! And one could add that Shakira met his future guy Gerard Pique at the filming of the video. That is a very important fact 😊
I also think to understand better it's good to know about Aino and Väinämöinen.
@@TheMursutin good that someone els said it..i dont wanna explain this..😐
Not here to nit-pic, but 'vaka(a)' would be more like 'stout' than strong...
"The light at the end of the tunnel is out due to savings"..? You understand a lot! Don't sell yourself short! ♥️
He translated it.
@@HipsteryDibstery but google translated it wrong and he didn’t get the meme because the translation made no sense
2:48 To cut costs, the light at the end of the tunnel is turned off.
The Väinämöinen part is a play on one of the best known verses from kalevala which starts like "Vaka vanha Väinämöinen" and someone has made the connection with the shakira song. And to add anonther layer: this joke has been put to the "Therapist isn't real" -meme template. Terveisin meemi-faija
Thank you for demonstrating how learning a new language is much harder than learning the words (which is all online translations can do.) Context, nuance, pop culture references, all change the meaning of the sentence. Knowing each word still wouldn't convey the joke.
When you can make jokes and get jokes in Finnish, you'll have mastered the language.
Congratulations on how far you've come. You're good natured, flexible and willing to look silly. That's everything. Happy autumn.
you got the lotr meme wrong too. It was just that there is 3 different things in the fridge, milk, cottage cheese and that one container that ha something that has gone bad months ago. I think this is just about people pongind over the fact that we all have that one container there lurking
Yeah. Not "me refrigerating 3 at night" but "Me at the fridge at 3 o' clock at night"
Kiitos tästä, ei ollut mitään hajua mikä siinä oli se pointti. Ei iske minuun.
No the cottage cheese is basically milk gone bad..
yeah and the joke is that the oldest thing still looks best although it's months after the best before date but you don't dare opening it anymore. Just like Legolas is waaaaay older than the other two but looks the youngest.
I actually thought that the joke was how you keep wondering to the fridge even tho there is nothing good in there. Even at 3 am when you should be sleeping.
The väinämöinen meme: translation was wrong. It should have been: he isn't real, he can't hurt you. Not about him being right.
Also, it's a reference to a Shakira (i think) video, like the one about Africa...
maybe it would be in english like this: Vaka vaka vanha = very very old
The third poem in Kalevala start with the phrase "vaka vanha väinämöinen". Cool fact instead of riming with endings, old finnish rimed with the start of the words. Like ypöyksin, iki-ihana, sotisopa(armor) and entistä ehompi.
@@ukkonoa **entistä ehompi. Ehtistä ei tarkoita mitään. Sen lisäksi mainittakoon oikeat kirjoitusmuodot, eli "ypöyksin" ja "iki-ihana"
@@Ghostiification rapatessa roiskuu..
When I was a like 5-6 years old, my cousin used to tell me that Urho Kekkonen was living in the empty rotten house next to our house. I was terrified when it was torn down because I thought poor Urho Kekkonen became homeless.
“What do you mean?” he said. “Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good
morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning
to be good on?”
“All of them at once,” said Bilbo.
Moomin: "I always say 'morning' rather than 'good morning', because if it were a good morning, I would be in bed, and not talking to people."
Google Translate gets hella confused with any nonstandard sentence structures and unusual/multi-meaning words (huomen instead of aamu - both mean morning, but huomen also means 'tomorrow morning' specifically) ... and honestly just Finnish in general. It'd be more accurate to look at wiktionary word by word for example, just a *LOT* more work.
This was a very good idea! Trying to get the memes both makes you learn the language and get immersed in the culture. and gets your discord involved which is a very nice bonus :)
I was hoping there would be the dog pictures that say something like: I went mushroom picking in Finland, but I didn't sieni.
That made me laugh solid 10min when I saw it the first time 😂🤪
Who else loves dave. I find your videos very entertaining.
Well I'm not gay, but I can try..?
Säästösyistä: "Due to cost efficiency, the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off."
This is actually one of the best ones and I*m not a meme-person at all. Good video, though, your accent is very good!
me looking into my fridge for a 3am snack: milk, something that has gone (off, I'm guessing) many months ago I dare no longer open it, cottage cheese
now that's a strong _mood_
i think the "mä jääkaapilla kolmelta yöllä" is about you being night owl and checking the fridge for snacks but there is only milk, expired food and cottage cheese left,, so nothing snack worthy? idk
7:12 "I always say "morning" and not "good morning" because if it were a good morning i'd still be in bed and not speaking to people."
Memes are tricky because they usually require that you completely understand the sentence and have a good grasp on the culture as well, due to the minimal amount of context provided. So not a good measure for how well you know your basics, but probably a great tool for when you're more familiar with the language and culture. :) Also, as a Finnish translator I'm relieved to see that google translate won't replace me for a while...
We could add a translation after the meme, so you can see what it means without google translate.
Learning a language through memes, we really do live in a society.
Pulled moomin is a reference to the fact that people call mozzarella moomin meat. Pulled moomin meat is like pulled pork made from mozzarella..
Google translator is rubbish
Gives a rough idea, but if you wanted a good translator for sentences, it would have to be coded specifically. Doubt anyone wan'ts to do it for free.
2:49 "For conservation reasons the light _visible_ at the end of the tunnel has been shut."
3:26 "(We) have where to choose from."
4:30 "Therapist: The Old, Old Väinämöinen is not real, he can't hurt you."
The picture is from the music video of Shakira's song "Africa", in which the word "Waka" is said multiple times.
("Waka" itself means nothing, but is an affirmative word for the word "vanha" [old], meaning he's _very_ old.)
6:21 (From left to right) "Me at the fridge at 3 AM"
"Milk"
"Something that's gone bad many months ago and I'm too afraid to open it anymore"
"Cottage cheese"
7:13 "I always say 'morning' and not 'good morning', for were it a good morning I would still be in bed, not talking to people."
Did not see a single nalle manna meme. Disappointed.
Jokes aside, you really should get a finnish speaker to translate the memes for you next time!
Yeah! React with Cat for example?
"Because we are saving money the light in the end of the tunnel is disabled". As in going towards the light in the end of the tunnel when you die
Much love from Lapland (Finland) 🇫🇮
Do a part 2, but have Cat with you in the video! 😁 loved the concept, want more!
The säästösyistä one: for saving reasons the light at the end of the tunnel is off.
3:26 "There's a lot to choose from"
6:17 "Me at the fridge at 3AM" and what they find inside
7:12 "I always say 'morning' and not 'good morning', for if it were a good morning, I'd still be in bed and not talking to people"
the waka waka väinämöinen meme and your reaction to it was soooo funny, i couldnt stop laughing 😂😂😂
Ok, so: in Kalevala, Väinämöinen is sometimes described as "Vaka vanha Väinämöinen" - "Steady old Väinämöinen". Someone thought "hey that one Shakira song goes 'waka waka', let's make a Väinämöinen-version", vaka -> waka waka. That's just untranslatable wordplay.
The meme itself is that normal "Therapist: _'x isn't real, it can't hurt you.'_ X: *insert picture of x.*
The one with Väinämöinen I guess expects you to know kalevala.
And calling Väinämöinen a hero is wrong on sooo many levels... main character yes. Hero not so much, as demonstrated by the story behind this meme.
On the one side you have old man Väinämöinen (vaka vanha Väinämöinen) on the other young Aino who's forced to become his wife and the only way to escape Aino finds is to drown herself.
There is an awesome painting of that scene in the Ateneum btw.
Väinämöinen is a character from Kalevala that inspired Tolkien to create Gandalf.
Patching the confusions:
2:48 "The light at the end of a tunnel is turned off to conserve energy" The joke is referring to the stories that dying people see a light at the end of a tunnel.
4:29 In Kalevala Väinämöinen is often referred as "Vaka vanha Väinämöinen", thus "Waka waka" joke. I'm not really sure what "vaka" is supposed to mean.
6:22 The meme is about that when you visit our refrigerator at 3AM all that's there has gotten spoiled except milk & cottage cheese, so no, it's not a story about milk turning to cheese. It's about dealing with what you've got even though it's not much.
7:12 "I say "morning" instead of "good morning". If it was a good morning I'd still be in bed instead of talking to others" (I can relate to this so much btw)
The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned of to because of cuts in funding.
lol this is just 10 minutes of dave being confused
"Säästösyistä tunnelin päässä näkyvä valo on sammutettu"= "The light at the end of the tunnel is off to conserve energy/money." No matter how bad it gets there's always light at the end of the tunnel. Except in Finland because we can't fit that in the budget
Google Translate is your worst enemy when looking at Finnish memes. In my opinion, everyone who makes memes in Finnish should make sure they can still be understood correctly when using Google Translate. Difficult but doable.
Great idea for a video, cheers! How about a sequel with Cat (and/or Finnish friends) coming up with popular or iconic Finnish memes for you to react to? I agree that these memes weren't too funny and I had hard time understanding a couple of them even though I am a native Finn (for example I knew the waka waka one was about Väinämöinen and Shakira's song, but I didn't completely understand how they are related except for vaka/waka wordplay). This is why you could ask for the popular/iconic instead of just some memes that turn out to be hilariously weird only in one person's opinion.
Possibly the funniest video on the internet. The memes were great but paled in comparison to your cluelessness. Just what I needed today :D
Can so much relate that morning meme 😂😂😂
If you have not read Kalevala then this is your change. Read and react to it on camera, in stream or edited. It will get the views. Ps. Väinämöinen is the main character.
I laughed so hard at "this is a saga about milk going bad"
I wonder who claims that Kekkonen means small pile. Kekko and keko are different. Kekko or Kekkonen don't mean anything. Keko is pile.
Kekko is a giant actually.
I'm not sure if I'm questioning my own or other people's sense of humour more, but all of these memes were so bad.
Why not both? These were solid upper-middle class when it comes to Finland-memes tho. Usual shit is so terrible it gives me headache worthy of Christmas carols during October.
@@jokurandomi93 What an excellent comparison 😂
My thoughts... But hey most of the people watching this channel is probably teenagers. Wouldnt surprise me if most of these memes came from younger people.
Jonnet ja jonnat ei tajuu.
@@jokurandomi93 No way upper-middle class, no Finnish memes I've seen are anywhere near as bad as these were, and I've seen a lot of memes. Tai ehkä nää hivelee joidenkin supernormojen huumoria
It actually translates to "The light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off".
So, I just read your name as _Cave Dad_
As a finnish person it's pretty funny watching this and seeing your difficulty understanding these
Lord help me, I kept laughing just more and more when you said "waka waka vanha Väinämöinen"
"This episode was sponsored by Ratiopharm." 😄 Don't be worried, memes are hard to understand even for the natives.
There is a saying that when you die you see light at end of the tunnel, my joke is
make sure that the light isn't a train
not even any finnish shitposts like spurdo spärdö :((( VOI BERGELE!! :DDD
Keep up the great amounts of effort and amazing content!
Request reaction to Kyrö Distillery ad. "Kyrö Distillery: Presented by a naked man" (it is in English).
Part 2 please
The lord of the ring meme was like what u see in the fridge when u open it at night its pretty hard to explain
3:29: Here, you can choose what kind of air you buy! Isn't that amazing?
I think the fridge meme was just about what was on the fridge shelf when you open it
7:04 The middle one is "something that has expired and I don't dare to open it"
Omg🤣 im finnish and when you say "sÄsTTösyiTtä" i was dying 🤣🤣🤣
Gosh I love Finnish memes
Did he really just say "What's a Väinämöinen?" 😦
Watch legendary finnish videos from yotube like "mähä sanoin et mä en vittu vedä enää kertaakaa" And "kahen kilon siika"
The Väinämöinen meme: The Kalevala begins with the world being born out of an egg. We usually skip that part. The real first chapter starts: 'Vaka Vanha Väinämöinen' which is the traditional three-words-starting-with-the-same-sound-in-a row type of poem. This meme is a mashup with Shakira's song and the traditional Kalevala start- (Vaka -> waka) also fear of old powerfull white bearded mages is a thing, so that is why the therapist is trying to prove Väinämöinen is not real (oikea)
"starting-with-the-same-sound-in-a row" - alliteration?
@@Yoarashi maybe, I am not a native English speaker
Make Part 2 with your partner she can both laugh at you and help explain
What this video was like for me: man fails to pronounce finnish words and i laugh at how bad google translate is
On a (boyfriends) family dinner, after dessert, someone said in finnish something like "if you sit too long at dinner/by the table you get lazy kids". All laughed exept me. "Oh, you don't speak finnish." And they translated that part for me (rest of conversations still unrevealed though). But what did they say in finnish? I've asked others from Swedish Tornedalen, but noone's heard of it. Is it a saying from "real Finland" (Swedish Tornedalen have it's own "Finnish" called Meänkieli.)?
7:11 I always say "huomenta" and not "hyvää huomenta" because if the morning was good , I would still be in bed and not interacting with other people.
Hope you understood
DAAAAVVEEEEE VÄINÄMÖINEN!!!! GODDAMNIT
This is a really neat way to learn and practice more Finnish
I could try that sometimes in my learning
I wish I had as half as decent accent as you tho hahaha
Keep practicing reading and understanding
We can do it mate hahahah
The wet one (the first meme) was a spambot, I think they were spamming the army Twitter, so they chose to respond.
Greetings, I’m also working on spoken Finnish. I’m in America and have purchased a proper DVD player. Would you be kind enough direct me to a source that I’m able to buy 📀 with English subtitles?
My guess about the blurry text: To conserve money, the light at the end of the tunnel has been switched off :)
"Säästösyistä tunnelin päässä näkyvä valo on sammutettu" = "Duo to savings the light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off" (slightly modified to preserve the joke)
The Moomin one translated:
I say "morning" not "good morning", because if it would be a good morning, i would still be in bed, not talking to people.
Google translate is completely worthless
It's far from being completely worthless, unless your brain only understands binary.
it's fine in some cases mut suomessa ainakin ku taivutetaan nii pal ja puhekieli (ja murteet) viel ni ei oikee toimi
@@sntt3404 ja juuri tästä syystä internetissä pitäisi pysyä mahdollisimman kirjakielisessä ilmaisussa. Tai esimerkiks näin että se viimeinen i jää pois, mallia: "pitäis". Puhekieli nyt vielä menee mut jos joku nyt rupe redditis jotai Poria mongertama nii ei sit vittuka selvä ota.
So if Kekkonen is a small Kekko, what if your last name is Pitkänen 😂
i hoped not only for Dave guessing the meaning but expaining the real meaning for non-Finnish folks there as well
6:02 here a 1000$ you corected the words 👏👏
i hadnt actually seen most of these memes and laughed more at these than your interesting interpretation although they were funny too (I spend at least a solid minute laughing at the lotr one bc it's so true when you are hungry at night there's never anything good at fridge ;__;)
Google translator messed up the Kekkonen meme aswell. "Pientä Kekkoa" should be just "Small Kekkoa", as "kekko" is not the same as "keko" which means "pile" in english. Not the greatest meme anyway, but it's kinda shame that the translator messes the words like that. For some reason google translator can't translate finnish to english properly but if you translate finnish to any other language it goes really smoothly.
I think it was a really smart move to ask for some worthy memes because there are SO many bad ones that basically play with non-existing stereotypes and give a false impression of Finland and Finns. Aaand those memes are usually how foreigners who have never been to Finland view us Finns and it's just not accurate at all:D
Tämä on hyvää kontenttia! Lisää tätä xD
These finnish memes are really hard to figure out without good understanding of finnish language. Maby try this with someone who knows finnish and have them figure out memes with you.
Some of the memes were just bad like the moomin not saying good morning. And all of them were new ones to me. But the Väinämöinen meme was just hilarious. There is this very well known sentence from Kalevala: ”Vaka vanha Väinämöinen laski laulellen vesiä”, which is kind of old finnish and not said like that anymore, but it is translated like ”Stable old Väinämöinen singing while went along the stream of water (maybe with a boat?)” or as it also sounds to modern people: ”Stable old Väinämöinen singing while taking a leak”. That’s another meme. We don’t know or understand our Kalevala so well at all. But this one just makes the Vainamoinen look like some kind of voodoo man and ”Waka waka” is just sounding like ”vakaa vanha”, and some nonsensical warnings about him. It’s just downright silly. It reminds me of some jesus jokes
The whole Kalevala is something we all are forced to read at some point during elementary school. It is considered somehow important national story but honestly it is boring and makes no sense to children that age. The phrases are almost like different language and hard to understand. Reading it makes you wait there was some kind of catch but there is no catch, it’s not funny or interesting or anything. Like ”Ok, there is this guy singing and going down the stream, so what then? I guess it’s kind of storytelling, of what I could understand about it”. Then after you have been forced to read it you’ll never do it again. It kind of makes my head hurt like yours when you tried to understand the memes. Makes no sense for the most part. So maybe the joke is about the nonsense of original Kalevala too. Makes just as much sense. Made me crack a little bit :) Similar to the mandatory cross-country skiing for all children like two times a year at school. Parents have to buy skis and bring them to school because of that. And children need to haul them around school. Makes no sense and no one likes it but it’s part of being finnish I guess? Some old stuff.
Also in Kalevala there is used ”vaka” instead of ”vakaa”, which means stable. No one uses ”vaka” anymore and it seems like typo. So maybe this ”waka waka” is making fun of that typo
You could make a whole video on reacting to Kalevala and finnish ppl would eat it up... Just sayin' (inspired by vaka vanha Väinämöinen)
Part 2, please. :)
Dave: I don't get that. This is confusing.
Me yelling at the screen on most memes: NO!! Dave! It does not mean that!! You don't get it!! IT IS ACTUALLY FUNNY XD
This was actually fun to watch. Please make more of these type of videos but maybe have a finnish friend with you (on Discord?) who can actually explain finnish memes since most of them are either grammatically challenging. Google translate did not do a good job on most of the translations.
If it was a good morning i'd still be in bed and not talking to people
You should do these with finnish person it's mostly just frustrating to watch you not understand 😂 love you tho
I always say morning instead of good morning, for if it was a good morning I would still be in bed
Moomintroll there is saying that he doesn't say "good morning", because if it were good, he would still be in bed and not talking to people. Google Translate isn't nearly always correct...
Moomin meat is so tasty. It's like a drug ...
You should read kalevala
Omg😂😂. Im in Finland and I onely laugh!!!!
Google translator REALLY lets you down on this one.
More this series😂👌😄
here's a nut for U: "Mökötätkö sää?"
Nää on nii hyvii, itken🤣🤣🤣
Me looking at the mörkö meme with ahdistus and vitutus:
Darnit that was good one and you skipped it :D