something about Finnish language

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Let's create a series or chain whatever that is called. One expresses such Finnish phrase or word that one finds amusing, surprising, boring, exciting ... etc. something that one finds remarkable and briefly discusses why it is so. Afterwards leaves a phrase or word that he loves the others to discuss and so on ...

omakotitalo -> asun omakotitalossa... when I first heard this someone saying... I was like, 'ya buddy, you don't need to brag about it' It still kinda makes me think as to why it's called oma + koti + talo, too much redundants.

Next word: velipoikka

[Jukka Aho]

omakotitalo [...] It still kinda makes me think as to why it's called oma + koti + talo, too much redundants.

The term omakotitalo, although perhaps a bit awkward if broken down to its components, was coined because it describes a “private” single-family house you truly own yourself and can call a “home”... as opposed to living in a coop, for example, where the company owns the building and you only have a right of occupancy/tenure, or in an apartment building where you rent the apartment and don’t have any such rights, or in a farm house where traditionally many generations lived under the same roof or at least around the same yard and life was not centered around a single, “private” family to the extent it now is.

These two articles may give some insight to the history behind the word / concept:

• Omakotiasumisen kulttuurihistoriaa
• Suomalaista sisua ja sukupuolirooleja

Next word: velipoikka :roll:

The word poika only has one “k” in it, of course. Velipoika is a word that implies certain kind of endearment (or at least casual, relaxed attitude) towards your brother, when referring to him in his absence. I guess the latter part of the compound – the word poika – is supposed to hint you are still, in some respects, seeing him as the boy he was when you two were growing up... even though he might now be a grown-up man or an old geezer in the eyes of an outsider.

As a native speaker, I don’t have a new word to offer in this thread so I’ll leave that for the next commentator...

[sinikala]

There are already plenty of lists in circulation / presumably findable through Google - with lots of strange finnish words. Boymangirl is the example you often see.