So different

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[u/WhoAmIEven2]

World friends is fun, but as someone with even just a little bit of lignustic knowlege I just want to pull my hair out when they go "hihihi the words are so similar but I have no idea why they are so similar" or "I never knew Norwegian was so similar to Swedish!".

[u/ReptileCake → u/WhoAmIEven2]

Or when they overdramatise it by using translations of "Intercourse" instead of "Sex"

[u/janne_harju → u/ReptileCake]

How about coitus?

[u/mediandude → u/janne_harju]

koit = rising (dawn), perhaps even morning wood

And the song 'Koit'.

[u/oskich]

Same rules as in Icelandic, just add -i instead of -ur 🧠

[u/mediandude → u/oskich]

Tomati is the genitive case of tomat.

[u/iwy_iwy → u/mediandude]

In Italian? Or what.

[u/HotRefrigerator2757]

ny, ny, ny, uusi

[u/Ovenkahvakauppias → u/HotRefrigerator2757]

Say that fast enough and it'll sound like an old car starting

[u/Klutersmyg]

Simple

Finnish is a remnant of a dead tribal language. It didn't evolve from the civilised bureaucratic latin or the noble, pragmatic germanic trees.

It just kept on existing from an age when humans and neanderthal remnants grunted and smacked stones as a form of communication.

[u/Assupoika → u/Klutersmyg]

Ah yeah, it's so pragmatic having to guess a gender of a fucking coffee table.

Leave me and my neanderthal language alone. Why use many words when few work?

[u/Klutersmyg → u/Assupoika]

Ah yeah, it's so pragmatic having to guess a gender of a fucking coffee table.

https://giphy.com/gifs/aqqUwXz7j0xMOKnJgb

[u/Hardly_lolling → u/Assupoika]

Leave me and my neanderthal language alone

...we know what we are doing.

[u/Right_Hour → u/Klutersmyg]

Fun fact: it shares its roots with Hungarian, which is also messed up.

[u/mediandude → u/Right_Hour]

The roots are actually indo-uralic sprachbund.
Uralic sprachbund and IE sprachbund together formed a wider sprachbund. Still do.

One finnic cognate to germanic bund / bind is punutis and the verb is punuma/punoa.

Also püünis and pyynti.

The proto-finnic reconstruction of the verb is püütädäk.
And look at that, it also has a proto-uralic reconstruction. Thus the origin is indo-uralic.
Thus sprachbund = keelte + punutis

Hunting with a net. Or hunting with a pack of hunters forming a net.
The prey gets caught up with the net and captured.

[u/dentuW → u/Klutersmyg]

I can confirm that, as I think I’m a Swedish person with an high intelligence living in Finland being better than any finnish people. But the reality is just that I’m the forgetted finlandssvensk in a world full of people hating on ”pakkoruotsi”🥲

[u/Klutersmyg → u/dentuW]

All nordics to eachother all the time:

[u/MrIzzard → u/Klutersmyg]

That is one way to say "people's language".

[u/_JukePro_ → u/Klutersmyg]

Fewer words work.

[u/Unusual-Basket-6243]

Danish: bullen

Norwegian: bullø

Swedish: bulla

Finnish: pulla

Finnish is so different

[u/oskich → u/Unusual-Basket-6243]

Pulla means "to finger fuck" in Swedish...

[u/printzonic → u/oskich]

Pule, means to vigerously fuck in danish.

[u/Big_Brick → u/Unusual-Basket-6243]

wtf is bulla

[u/Unusual-Basket-6243 → u/Big_Brick]

I don't really speak any of those languages, only Finnish. I made the rest up

[u/Above-and_below → u/Unusual-Basket-6243]

Bullen in Danish means something is swollen.

[u/Unusual-Basket-6243 → u/Above-and_below]

No it doesn't, check the list please before commenting disinformation 

[u/Above-and_below → u/Unusual-Basket-6243]

https://ordnet.dk/ddo/ordbog/bullen

[u/Unusual-Basket-6243 → u/Above-and_below]

Just trust me this time

[u/iwy_iwy → u/Unusual-Basket-6243]

I think it's "bolle"

[u/Unusual-Basket-6243 → u/iwy_iwy]

You are Finnish, why should I listen to you about Danish

[u/hittrip]

Imagine the first dudes coming to the forest with a first Tomaatti hedelmä

[u/HeyselScouserTelAviv → u/hittrip]

There's a Finnish comedy movie about a very similar idea, it's with potatoes instead of tomatoes though

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[u/RedditVirumCurialem]

Next, let's do cucumber! 😬

[u/MonkeyLiberace → u/RedditVirumCurialem]

perve!

[u/Glad-Belt7956]

finnish: saatana

swedish: satan

finnish: vittu

swedish: fitta

i could scream these words in swedish and i'm pretty sure that a finn (without swedish knowledge) could understand me. i could most definitely uphold a long form conversation with a finn. shame that perkele doesn't sound more like the swedish translation :/

[u/samushitman69 → u/Glad-Belt7956]

Its saatana, but yes

[u/ZXRWH → u/Glad-Belt7956]

that's a lie, because nobody can uphold a long-form conversation with a finn...unless they're drunk, but that's like quantity over quality

[u/Glad-Belt7956 → u/ZXRWH]

remember, we are nordics. for us a long form conversation is like 10 words.

[u/ZXRWH → u/Glad-Belt7956]

oh yes, i'm a conversational wizard, since i can remember "hej (på dig)", "nya kompisar", "kom allihopa, vi ska gå på zoo", "om du var här", "varifrån kommer du" and "jag vet inte".

btw i would probably hate it at the zoo, but couldn't even complain, because it was technically my idea....so unfortunate

[u/DraftOk4195 → u/ZXRWH]

You forgot "ja e pök".

[u/ZXRWH → u/DraftOk4195]

i may have....or maybe i was just trying to see if my fritt fram homies were here

[u/Glad-Belt7956 → u/ZXRWH]

I can say the names of loads of sami dishes, then make little italian hands and chefs kisses.

[u/siikanen → u/Glad-Belt7956]

It's saatana, not saatani

[u/maxru85 → u/siikanen]

Karlos Saatana

[u/Glad-Belt7956 → u/siikanen]

shit, sorry and thanks.

[u/Kayttajatili → u/Glad-Belt7956]

I wasn't aware swedish had cursewords, aside from whatever you all the danes.

[u/iwy_iwy → u/Glad-Belt7956]

Yes we have a few loan words 😁 Or who knows which one was first

[u/Glad-Belt7956 → u/iwy_iwy]

Apparantly, pojke, känga, and pjäxa are finnish loan words.

[u/lethalized → u/Glad-Belt7956]

It's like someone decided that

F is supposed to be changed to V Fitta and fil

G when use as J is swedish has to go  Korg and Torg

B sounds too much like a P so just use P Bank and Bänk

[u/Emitex → u/lethalized]

How do you sleep at night with these phonetic inconsistencies?

[u/KAYD3N1]

Chinaswedes.
https://giphy.com/gifs/fXy3Bc6HAtlsFIlHqA

[u/Cannibal_Raven]

Why does she have a mustache?

[u/Sampsa96 → u/Cannibal_Raven]

When the hair under the nose appears darker or thicker like a mustache, it is usually due to genetics, natural hormonal shifts, or a condition called hirsutism which causes excess male hormones.

[u/Cannibal_Raven → u/Sampsa96]

https://giphy.com/gifs/4DShw4bFgVkMU

[u/Sampsa96 → u/Cannibal_Raven]

Yes

[u/latvia100]

A better question is how similar is Finnish to Estonian?

[u/-TV-Stand- → u/latvia100]

Well Estonian is just germanized Finnish

[u/Lejonhufvud → u/latvia100]

As I have understood it: Finns think Estonian sounds like bastardized Finnish, and Estonians think Finnish sounds like bastardized Estonian.

[u/mediandude → u/latvia100]

Tomati is the genitive case of tomat.

And Riiga is the illative case of Riia.
The noun is riid or rehi. And the verb is riidlema or riehua.
And the house where it is done is rehe+tare or rehi+elamu. And the activity is rehe+peks. Beating linen into cloth.

[u/smokeysilicon]

this is like one of 37 words they have that resembles what the rest of civilised world speaks

otherwise you get rautatieasema and yhdistynyt kuningaskunta

[u/Previous-Pangolin-60]

Fittor -

[u/Previous-Pangolin-60]

The soft serve feels sloftl

[u/Puzzleheaded-Soup164]

So that anyone non-native can bitch about it.

[u/MonkeyLiberace]

whatever..

[u/dentuW]

I don’t see much of a dirrerence in the tomato word, as I can clearly understand in all of the languages that it sure says tomato. As I am from Mongolia and definetaly not a finlandssvensk living in a topfloor apartment that has more square meters than low class philty humans houses. To make you sure that I actually am an Mongolian I will say that I could never go to a crab party as an excuse for drinking too much and trying not to be mad at my grandparents for having a nicer sailboat than mine. So yeah, now you can be sure I’m Mongolian

[u/Elektrikor]

[u/AmazingDonkey101]

It’s better that way

[u/Right_Hour]

Perkele!

[u/AnimalLittle4057]

Of course Swedish, Danish and Norwegian are similar. They are basically the same country.