I will not despair...

Nassebox · Post by **Nassebox** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:30 am

This morning's lesson in Finnish:

Rusakko - brown hare (I knew that)

Rusakka - brownish yellow reindeer (no, I did not know that)

Russakka - German cockroach (I had heard but would prefer to forget)

ARGH!!
I have lived here for some time, and I am a native, but sometimes I have the urge to just drop everything and run away.
Now, boys and girls, forget I said that and get on with your Finnish homework.

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soda · Post by **soda** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 10:59 am

Yeah, but at least those are words you might not need too often - I think the real challenges for the learner of Finnish are separating and remembering the conugations for jäädä and jättää, päästä and päästtää etc etc...

And then remembering the passive and active forms for the transitive and intransitive verbs, and when to use each....

Nassebox · Post by **Nassebox** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 11:13 am

soda wrote:Yeah, but at least those are words you might not need too often - I think the real challenges for the learner of Finnish are separating and remembering the conugations for jäädä and jättää, päästä and päästtää etc etc...

And then remembering the passive and active forms for the transitive and intransitive verbs, and when to use each....

True, very true. Not many reindeer in my neck of the woods. But picture the look on people's faces if I were to say I found cockroach pawprints in the snow, or, worse still, a hare in my foodstuffs...

khu · Post by **khu** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:08 pm

Yes, damn that Finnish word polymorphism. I hate it.

sammy · Post by **sammy** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 12:17 pm

khu wrote:Yes, damn that Finnish word polymorphism. I hate it.

Yep. It makes me want to tear the hare off my head.

Naavaneito · Post by **Naavaneito** » Wed Oct 26, 2005 3:39 pm

Hey, I am native Finnish speaker and I can promise that you will get on well without knowing any of those words. You can just use jänis (=rabbit). I did not even know that these rusakka and russakka words exist.

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 3:14 pm

Nassebox wrote:This morning's lesson in Finnish:

Rusakko - brown hare (I knew that)

Rusakka - brownish yellow reindeer (no, I did not know that)

Russakka - German cockroach (I had heard but would prefer to forget)

ARGH!!
I have lived here for some time, and I am a native, but sometimes I have the urge to just drop everything and run away.
Now, boys and girls, forget I said that and get on with your Finnish homework.

Do you know what "rusistiikka" is ? I had no idea what it means, maybe I should have guessed but I didn´t. It is one of the words here :

http://www.kotikielenseura.fi/virittaja ... omi_r.html

Nassebox · Post by **Nassebox** » Sun Oct 30, 2005 6:03 pm

Do you know what "rusistiikka" is ? I had no idea what it means, maybe I should have guessed but I didn´t. It is one of the words here :

http://www.kotikielenseura.fi/virittaja ... omi_r.html[/quote]

I suppose it means Russian Studies, but it's not a word you'd come across all that often.

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:43 pm

>> I suppose it means Russian Studies, but it's not a word you'd come across all that often. <<

Yes, it means Russian Studies.

kalmisto · Post by **kalmisto** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 7:56 pm

Nassebox

Pieni Tietosanakirja ( Little Encyclopedia ) at : http://runeberg.org/pieni/

4 volumes ( 1925-1928 )

old but interesting !

See what it says about "rustiikka" ( yes, I mean "rustiikka" )

http://runeberg.org/pieni/3/0745.html

I have a very modest vocabulary. Both "rusistiikka" and "rustiikka" were new words to me.

Nassebox · Post by **Nassebox** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:40 pm

kalmisto wrote:
Pieni Tietosanakirja ( Little Encyclopedia ) at : http://runeberg.org/pieni/

4 volumes ( 1925-1928 )

old but interesting !

See what it says about "rustiikka" ( yes, I mean "rustiikka" )

http://runeberg.org/pieni/3/0745.html

I have a very modest vocabulary. Both "rusistiikka" and "rustiikka" were new words to me.

Rustiikka was new to me too... and after reading the entry you referred to I suddenly felt that old, old urge to drop everything and run, screaming like a banshee...

Nassebox · Post by **Nassebox** » Mon Oct 31, 2005 8:40 pm

kalmisto wrote:
Pieni Tietosanakirja ( Little Encyclopedia ) at : http://runeberg.org/pieni/

4 volumes ( 1925-1928 )

old but interesting !

See what it says about "rustiikka" ( yes, I mean "rustiikka" )

http://runeberg.org/pieni/3/0745.html

I have a very modest vocabulary. Both "rusistiikka" and "rustiikka" were new words to me.

Rustiikka was new to me too... and after reading the entry you referred to I suddenly felt that old, old urge to drop everything and run, screaming like a banshee...

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