Swedish or Finnish?

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:25 pm

glorius

Me :
>> "Pirssi" comes from the Russian word "birs". I do not know if "birs" is used in modern Russian. <<

Maybe the word "birs" should be "birzja".

"Birzja" means "horse carriage station", if I am correctly informed.

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kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:43 pm

>> I am Russian actually and do not know what is "turgu" or "pirssi". <<

Hank W wrote that "turgu" comes from OLD Russian :

http://www.kotus.fi/verkkojulkaisut/jul ... komm.shtml

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 5:48 pm

I wouldn't expect people to recognize "vossikka" meaning a horse-carriage or a taxicab to come from "izvoztshik"

Common Helsinki slang though is a bit more evident:
mesta = a place
koni= a mangy horse
voda = water
narikka=place you leave your coats when you go to disco

(used to be the name of the jewish old clothes' market in the 1800's where the Kamppi bus station is now)
lafka= business
safka= food
bonjata,snaijata = to understand/get it

Juha H. · Post by **Juha H.** » Fri Aug 12, 2005 10:57 pm

Hank W. wrote:You know, if I'd be moving to the UK, should I start learning Welsh or English?

Most Welshmen speak English, most Finns also speak Finnish. I admit there are places like the Åland Islands, where Swedish may be more handy.

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Tue Aug 16, 2005 6:36 pm

glorius

Birzja Informatsii is a local newspaper in the city of Hrodna :

http://www.gazeta.grodno.by/369/

What does the word "birzja" mean in this newspaper title ?

Emi · Post by **Emi** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:10 am

I've been for Finnish of course here in this topic, but I'm starting the Swedish course on Tuesday... just wanted to inform the whole world and didn't know where to do it

Hank W. · Post by **Hank W.** » Thu Aug 18, 2005 9:15 am

Just remember you are learning Geordie, and moving to Alabammy

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Fri Aug 19, 2005 1:27 pm

Clive

Travis has info on Finnish on his blog :

http://www.hindsight-2020.com/documents ... pology.php

Any thoughts ? ( like "what a weird language!" )

Clive · Post by **Clive** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 4:59 am

Finnish isn't a weird language... it's just different to English. After going away and sticking my nose in loads of books and webpages trying to teach myself Finnish I've actually got somewhere with cases! I can (almost) work out the genetive stem now (which is used in more than one case, for those who don't know).

That blog is pretty helpful

thanks!

30:1 votes

Wow.

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:20 pm

Clive

Two Daisy Hamilton stories for you in English and Finnish :

The search for Lorna : http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/dai ... -lorna.htm

The Surprise : http://www.languages-on-the-web.com/dai ... rprise.htm

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 6:49 pm

Clive

An introduction to Finnish ( an on-line language course ) :

http://www.ddg.com/LIS/InfoDesignF97/pa ... temap.html

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 7:20 pm

Exercises :

http://cc.oulu.fi/%7Elangcent/fff/suome ... tuksia.htm

Clive · Post by **Clive** » Tue Aug 23, 2005 6:07 am

Thank you so, so much...

Do you have any idea how much you've just helped me?

starbucks · Post by **starbucks** » Tue Feb 21, 2006 11:49 pm

I am Russian actually and do not know what is "turgu" or "pirssi".

dah!???... "turgu" is probably a mispronounced "TORGI". as for "pirssi" -- sounds gibberish to me as well.

starbucks · Post by **starbucks** » Wed Feb 22, 2006 12:31 am

What does the word "birzja" mean in this newspaper title ?

Kalmisto, -- the name of Grodno's newspaper is tieto pörssi /informaatio pörssi -- birza informatsii ( birza means pörssi )

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