Hi Finns and thanks for nice semifinals. I wish to know, however, why at the end i saw from tv a phrase "Fiona esta sina heevosta palaamaasta". What does it mean?
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understood...something like
Fiona, don't let the horse come back (prevent the horse from coming)
What ever that then means...I didn't see.
A bit too many vowels in your sentence :) and of course the dots missing (estä sinä)
'palamasta' that means Don't let the horse burn! :)
maybe it was "paalaamasta" that is to prevent the horse of making hay to packets (field work)
hassua tämä suomen kieli :D
moni ulkkis ei varmasti usko, että pienellä vokaalin venytyksellä muuttuu käsite aivan toiseksi...
Mikähän hepo tuossa oli oikein kyseessä?!!! :-)
tietää, rupesi vähän kiinnostamaan. Ettei vaan ollut joku sisäpiirijuttu juontajien välillä???
En tiedä koko asiasta, en nähny mitään tommosta, en kyllä loppua katsonutkaan.
Unfortunately I didn't catch that phrase, but the sentence means roughly: "Fiona, stop the horse from returning."
Fiona sounds english name to me, not Finnish. Maybe Jaana? (the pink-dressed hostess)
In Finnish: "Fiona, estä sinä hevosta palaamasta."
yeah now isee its probably due to the digital brodcast. I am in Finland in Helsinki, so I am watching the local broadcast.
what are those litlle dots over a- and o-letters (a: o: etc.), indeed I know they belong to the finnish albhabetics but how do you pronounce them?
e.g. tämä (=this) you pronounce the letter ä like in the word 'cat'. In some texts (computer texts,TV, names of sportsmen etc. you write a compound letter a e just tight together or ä = ae. ö = oe)
pöllö (= an owl) ö-sound is like the vowel sound in the word 'girl' but a shorter one.
A bit difficult to explain without the phonetic marks (perhaps might be to find in the keyboard, somewhere..)
We also call the dots above "scandit" =Scandinavian marks?
(German has also so called Umlaut-vowels but not pronounced in the same way as in Finnish.
Mutter Mütter, Vater Väter)
ps. I know a lot about these things but can't use the computer so well :)