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niuniente · 3 days

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I spoke with a fellow Finnish woman who referred to her hand with "hän" gender pronoun. Those who don't know, we have only one gender pronoun in Finland; formal hän and informal se (meaning It).

Hän is formal and originally meant to be used only of people or entities with human consciousness (like, an alien species would still go with hän, even if they had 4000 genders). People do generously use it of pets, meaning that the animal is equal to a human and part of the human family it lives in.

So it was really funny example of how liberal we are with gender pronouns in Finland. You can casually note that this person, which is your hand, has underwent multiple surgeries but still refuses to heal. It implies that the hand has a consciousness of its own and it has just decided to be uncooperative with this healing process.

It is also, if asking me, adding this "cutesy" elements; yes, I know you are doing your best my little dear hand, and I know you are sick and I know how hard it is for you to have surgeries - but try harder.

#meanwhile in finland #finnish #language

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villittyniiskuneiti · 3 days

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tää tuntu taas tänään jotenki ajankohtaselta tai emt mites teist 🙃

#suomipaskaa #suomitumblr #suomiperkele #finnish #suomi #perkele #finland #VITTU NYT OIKEESTI

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oneleggedflamingo · 3 days

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French toast is köyhät ritarit =poor knights in finnish, but I forgot both names for it and tried googling it with ranskalaiset ratsumestarit =french horse(riding)masters.

#french toast #Köyhät ritarit #finnish #suomitumppu

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kvartsi · 2 days

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Koskaan ei ole niin kylmää vettä, etteikö voisi mennä uimaan!

#suomi #finland #finnish #suomeksi #kvartsi #suomipaskaa #perkele #vittu #saatana #suomitumppu #suomitumblr #suomiperkele #suomiposti #suomipostaus #talvi #uinti #helsinki

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loyalunicorn · 2 days

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#finnish #kyselläänpä #poll #my poll

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sarcasmchandlerbing · 1 month

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iibislintu · 5 months

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Finnish Christmas song topics

your brother died (Varpunen jouluaamuna)

your mother died (Konsta Jylhän joululaulu)

you are locked in a cage in a foreign country (Sylvian joululaulu)

life sucks and then you die, hi-ho (Hei tonttu-ukot hyppikää)

Baby Jesus freezes to death in the snow while humans stuff their faces indoors (Me käymme joulunviettohon)

Mary looks at Baby Jesus and has a vision of him crucified (Rauhaa, vain rauhaa)

Baby Jesus looks so peaceful on the manger, you know what, soon he will be executed (Heinillä härkien kaukalon)

Christmas elf has an existential crisis (Tonttu)

Bubbling under:

the whole family is drunk at Christmas dinner (Jouluaattona kännissä)

it snowed, it's beautiful, the homeless freeze to death under the bridges (Jos Helsinki on kaunis)

your friend went to war and promised to come back for Christmas, guess what, he's dead (Herra Melperin sotaanlähtö)

it snowed, it's beautiful, well you know what the black rotten leaves are still there waiting for the snow to melt (Musta, niljaisten lehtien kaupunki)

burglars dress up as Santas and rob the house when everyone is visiting relatives (Joulu on juhlista pahin)

#suomi #finnish #finland #suomitumblr #suomitumppu #suomeksi

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huurrekukkia · 11 months

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