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So how would you translate these??...I guess they are kind of like newspaper headlines....without the verbs I'm kind of lost... :D :D

Muslimit ensimmäisinä tieteen kimpussa!

....this seems like... "Muslims first in science with a passion!!"

Sankarimatkailijat venäläisen kulttuurin kimpussa ...

nuiva :
http://www.frasi.net/dizionari/finlandese-inglese/default.asp?vocabolo=nuiva

I understand "nuiva suhtautuminen" to mean "uninterest" or "unenthusiastic attitude".

The problem is that none of those are actually nuiva.

apathetic = apaattinen / välinpitämätön
cold = kylmä
cool = viileä ...

Would jaded do? It would include the feeling of 'lacking enthusiasm' + 'cynicism' + 'insensitivity'

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/jaded
That's more like tympääntynyt or leipiintynyt.

Google translates it into "sour attitude" which is as close as anyone else has come.

But in (GB) English we ...

penelope wrote:reluctant ? indifferent ?

Those would probably be something like vastahakoinen and välinpitämätön/penseä.

Some words that come to mind: resisting, opposing, unenthusiastic, uninterested, unwilling.

Vastusteleva, vastustava, innoton, välinpitämätön, haluton.

Yes, they're probably close to nuiva but not really the same. I feel that the difference might be in that you can resist or oppose or be ...

xurma wrote:my friends always tell me it sounds like finnish which they can't understand, and that it is also annoying because they get the feeling of understanding it, but they can't.

What? They can't understand this?

merenneito wrote:To make things worse my dialect is from Helsinki and she lives in Pohjanmaa

Helsinkians don't really have an actual dialect. It's just nasal intonation and bad grammar.

I'm not EP but you can find some links from here. The site is in finnish so here's a little help:

Yliopistot ja korkeakoulut = Universities and schools of higher education
Ammattikorkeakoulut = Polytechnics
Taideaineita opettavat erityislukiot = High schools of arts

As far as (fictitious) funny names go - where did the N.O. Hääppönen character come from again? I've forgotten, but the name haunts me.

It was Niilo Olli Hääppönen, the guy who comes to rescue James Potkukelkka from different kinds of situations in the style of the "Varokaa heikkoja jäitä ...

Timbeh wrote:"Osaaks pelaa shakkii?"

This way of speaking sounds actually really, really weird and annoying to me. I've never understood how this kind of speaking has managed to become so common.

Kadonneesta jotakin tietäviä pyydetään ottamaan yhteyttä poliisiin.
Must I use ottamaan here or can I also put ottaa?

"Ottaa" in this context would be the "helsinkian" way of talking. :) It's colloquial Finnish, not book Finnish. It also sounds a bit.. weird. At least in my opinion.

It's the ...

I don't really understand why KELA should cover private healthcare at all.

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garoowood wrote:What if I say: Menin tapaamaan maalla asuvan Kaisa-tätini. And Pelästyin vihaisesti haukkuvan koiran?

Those are not correct but you could say "tapasin maalla asuvan Kaisa-tätini" or "pelästyin, koska näin vihaisesti haukkuvan koiran".

Using the singular form to talk about berries is a typical Nordic usage. In many ways Finnish behaves as the nordic languages, but the influence has not necessarily allways gone from Nordic to finnish.

For example the "swedish" word for "boy", "pojke", is of finnish origin.

Using the word for ...