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[kalmisto]

I apologize, I didnt say anything about food I said salt whats another way to describe the taste of salt? besides salty. (kuinka suola maista?)

Its one of those things there is no answer, such as what does water taste like besides, salty, sweet, wet, bitter.

sorry it was a bad joke that went haywire, and fizzled out in the salty wet snow.

smilesalot


Patience is sorrow's salve

"kuinka suola maista?" should be "kuinka suola maistuu?" ( how do you like the salt ? ) but that is of course not the question you are trying to ask.

The question that you have in mind is "Miltä suola maistuu?" ( How does salt taste like? )

If I am not allowed to say "Se maistuu suolaiselta" ( It tastes salty ) then I say "Se maistuu makean vastakohdalta" ( It tastes like the opposite of sweet )

suolainen = salty

makea = sweet

vastakohta = opposite

[mrjimsfc]

Hmmm.....Actually, the opposite of sweet is bitter.

[kalmisto]

Hmmm.....Actually, the opposite of sweet is bitter.

Yes, it may be.

[Rosamunda]

Hmmm.....Actually, the opposite of sweet is bitter.

other (GB) antonyms include....

sweet vs. SOUR

sweet vs. SAVOURY

[sinikala]

Salt tastes salty because you have taste receptors for it... the five taste types talked about nowadays are salt, sweet, sour, bitter and umami.

Savoury is one or both of salt and umami.

Bitter lemon drink is both bitter and sweet. Sweet and sour sauce is what it says.

Bitter is not so much a direct opposite of sweet, just a different taste.

[kalmisto]

The dictionary here is not bad :

http://www.dicts.info/2/english-finnish.php?e=2


bitter = karmea - adj:
bitter = karvas - adj:
bitter = karvasvesi - n:
bitter = katkera - adj:
bitter = katkero - n:
bitter = kitkerä - adj:
bitter = pureva - adj:
bitter almond = karvasmanteli - n:
bitter almonds = karvasmanteli - n:
bitter salt = karvassuola - n:
bitter trenchant salt = kirpeä - n:
bitter-sweet = punakoiso - n:
bittern = kaulushaikara - n:
bitterness = karvaus - n:
bitterness = katkeruus - n:
bitterness = kirpeys - n:
bitterness = kitkeryys - n:
bittersweet = haikea - adj:
bittersweet = haikeus - n:
bitter = katkera
bitter = katkeruus; kirpeys
bitterness = katkeruus
bitterness = katkeruus; kirpeys

[smilesalot]

Salt tastes salty because you have taste receptors for it... the five taste types talked about nowadays are salt, sweet, sour, bitter and umami.

Savoury is one or both of salt and umami.

Bitter lemon drink is both bitter and sweet. Sweet and sour sauce is what it says.

Bitter is not so much a direct opposite of sweet, just a different taste.

What the heck is umami?

My last Anatomy class we only discussed 4 and refrenced them to 4 types of lingual papillae, and when doing a physical to test the neuropathways we just test for 4.

Hmm looks like Ive been out of school to long or have to spend more time in the neuroanatomy journals.

smilesalot

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body

[karen]

Found some interesting hits when I googled umami.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami

http://www.glutamate.org/media/glutamate.htm

[selflove]

Enough about sault and bitterness. What are some of the more commonly used, informal phrases the Finnish use? Like, would you say "See you later?", or use the correct, text book form, "I will see you later"? I guess I'm trying to ask if you can take words out to shorten them as you can in English.

[kuippana]

Like, would you say "See you later?", or use the correct, text book form, "I will see you later"? I guess I'm trying to ask if you can take words out to shorten them as you can in English.

Formal or text book form "I will see you later" - Näkemisiin.
Informal or slang version - Nähää (depending on dialect).

"See you later?" (question)
Formal - Näkisimmekö myöhemmin?
Informal - Nähääks myöhemmi?

[selflove]

That helps a lot. Kiitos! It makes it easier to remember where to put vowels and umlauts.

[selflove]

I forgot to ask something that's been bugging me for awhile. I'm sure I missed something somewhere, but.. Does the Finnish language use the letter "C"?

[RA]

I'd say no. I just checked my dictionary for c-letters. There's 2 pages and all of them are basically foreign words or derived from foreign languages (mostly English and French). But they use them in the Finnish language, so are they Finnish? Some of what I found:
Capuccino
C-vitamiini
Charmikas
CD-soitin
Celsius
Chic
Chauvinismi
Chauvinisti
Cheddar-juusto
Charterlento
Chili
Curry
Calmetterokotus
College
Coca-cola
Citykulttuuri

[Hank W.]

Well, written yes in "funny foreign words" but its a sss-sound usually. Finn's don't really appreciate too many letters of the alphabet, c,g,q,x and the likes... depending on your dialect d/t and b/p are interchangeable, or already changed, paappa piffas pussissa pussista panaanei parparalle...

[sammy]

Enough about sault and bitterness. What are some of the more commonly used, informal phrases the Finnish use? Like, would you say "See you later?", or use the correct, text book form, "I will see you later"? I guess I'm trying to ask if you can take words out to shorten them as you can in English.

In addition to the above, you can also say e.g. the following (approximate equivalents in English given too...)

moi / mo' / moro / morje(n)s - cheerio
huomisiin - see you tomorrow (if that's likely to happen)

and one that you hear often nowadays

palaillaan / palataan - see you around (a bit vague)