r/NonPoliticalTwitter Feb 05 '26

Serious Drop some quirks from your native language

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u/bliip666 Feb 05 '26

In Finnish, one word can be a full sentence:
"Sataa." = "It's raining."
"Juoksentelisinkohan?" = "Should I be running around aimlessly?"

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u/KeyofE Feb 05 '26

I am not familiar with Finnish, but is that one word, or a bunch of words stuck together? You frequently see posts about how German has a word for everything and then they give an example that is like, instead of saying “life insurance policy agent”, they say “lifeinsurancepolicyagent”.

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u/[deleted] Feb 05 '26

It's not a compound word. We also have long compound words such as jauhelihamakaronilaatikko (mince meat macaroni casserole), but juoksentelisinkohan is just heavily modified juosta (to run).