Hello! Today I thought you guys would get to continue your education in Finno-Swedishness
by learning a few 'finlandssvenska' words
So I've put to together a list of 20 words that we use in our family
and that we Swedish speaking Finns use in general
So this is words that you would not hear in Sweden and that aren't necessarily in any Swedish dictionaries.
but instead it's words that we Swedish speaking Finns have, with time, I guess made up really.
or somehow changed it from one word to another
Let's get started and see what words we've got!
The first word is a real classic, which I could probably say about each word
The first word on the list is 'håsa'
If you 'håsa' it means that you're hurrying
You can use it for instance if you say "you don't need to håsa" meaning you don't need to hurry
or if you do something sloppy in a bit of a rush you might be 'håsa'-ing.
because you're like hurrying, doing it too quickly
A fantastic 'finlandssvensk' word! To 'håsa'
Then we have the word 'krabbis', and that's what you get when you've had too much to drink the night before
It means to be hungover
If you 'duuna' something it means that you're doing something.
And this is the only word on the list that I know Finnish speakers also use
but either way a very 'finlandssvensk' word;
If you've got work you can say you've got 'duun' - it's a pretty Västnyländskt (Southwest Finland) thing to say
Then at the weekends or any weekday evening as well you might stumble upon a 'poligubbe '
and a 'poligubbe' is often a gross old man that sits with his beer belly out
and drinks beer on for instance a park bench and is generally gross
That's a 'poligubbe'
Yet another good word to know!
Then if you spot this 'poligubbe' you really don't want to go 'påta' on him
To 'påta' on someone means to pick at or continuously touch something
Like, if you've got a zit on your face you shouldn't 'påta' on it
The next word, instead of 'påta' on someone you can rather 'paja' them
and 'paja' means to stroke or pet something
I hate the word 'smeka' (eng: stroke/pet), I think it sounds so gross.
but we say 'paja' instead so you can 'paja' a dog or you can 'paja' someone like this. That's to 'paja'.
Then if you're making a mess or making something untidy then you're 'rådda'-ing
You can also have 'råddor' at home which means a pile of things you haven't sorted through
or if it's in general 'råddigt' it means it's messy, you haven't tidied.
It's 'råddigt'.
Then when you're tidying your 'råddor', you might need to 'tråtta' stuff somewhere.
If you 'tråtta' something somewhere it means you shove something in, 'tråtta' it in
... 'tråtta' it in, that doesn't help...
press something in, squeeze something in somewhere
That's to 'tråtta'. It's a great word. 'Tråtta' - why is it not in the Swedish dictionary?
Then if you start to 'kina' with someone it means that you start to argue or bicker with someone
For example, siblings often 'kina'. It's that small kind of - not a proper fight but you just bicker.
What do you say in Swedish instead of 'kina'?
It's such a great word. Bicker. No, that's all I've got.
Next up we have the only word I've been caught using in my Swedish videos
and that word is 'hoppeligen'
'hoppeligen' means, as I've mentioned before, hopefully
I assume it's from the word hope. "We hope it will happen" so it 'hoppeligen' happens.
It think it's a fantastic word! Again, I don't see anything wrong with any of these words!
They're so handy to have!
Then if we meet a fellow Swedish speaking Finn on the street we might say 'morjens'!
That means hello, or hi there
And that's quite a 'finlandssvensk' thing to say, like 'Morjens, morjens!'
The other day we were talking about, this isn't actually one of the words,
but we also use the word 'sidu' as in like 'ser du' (eng: 'you see')
So if you spot someone one the street you can say 'sidu morjens!'
..."You see hello"...
It's kind of like "looky, looky" - sidu morjens! Look what we have here.
Something like that. Ok, it's all starting to sound a bit weird...
Then we have a little bit of a random word that I definitely don't use every day but I think it's a bit funny
And that is the word 'påsavante'. It is a glove that separates the thumb from the rest of the hand
Like a mit, I think it's called in English.
A mitten, it might be called. Mit/mitten.
And that is a 'tumvante' in proper Swedish, I had to Google to find the proper word
That's a 'påsavante'. I think it's a pretty funny word.
Then when we go to sleep we go 'tuti'.
and you can also feel a little 'tuti'.
'Tuti'... Where does it come from? You can also say 'tutta'.
Tutta... Tuti... I don't really know what it really means but we use that word a lot in our family
You can say you go 'tuti', or if you feel 'tuti' you feel a bit tired, a bit sleepy.
Tuti. You feel tuti, and then you're gonna go tuti. And then we say 'nati nati' when you go 'tuti'.
The next word is also, surprise surprise, totally genius and that is the word 'kila'.
If you 'kila' someone it means that you jump the queue and I can't think of a word for it in Swedish
Now I'm getting unsure whether they perhaps use the word 'kila' in Sweden but pronounce it differently
I don't know, you Swedes can let me know if this word exists! It just means to jump the queue
like, without permission. Annoyingly, like little kids do.
Then if we say that we're going 'på tuppen' (eng: on/to the rooster) it doesn't mean that
we're going to walk on a male chicken... is that what a rooster is?
To go to 'tuppen' means to go to the toilet.
I don't really know where that comes from either and I don't really use it that much
Dave was mighty confused the other day when I asked if he's going to the rooster
But yeah so it means to go to the loo. Rooster = toilet. Makes total sense, right??
Then one of my favourite 'finlandssvenska' words is 'ludig'. Spellt 'ludig'.
If you were a clean-cut finlandssvensk you would probably pronounce it "loodig" but I say "luddy"
And 'ludig' means furry or fluffy
It think it's such a good word, it sounds so cute! 'Ludigt'!
Something can be 'ludigt', like you have 'ludiga' legs meaning you have furry legs
And one thing that actually can be 'ludigt' is your 'verrare'.
And 'verrare' means sweatpants. Why I do not know but we also say verkkare, but that's a Finnish word.
'Verrare' I guess is just a more Swedish version of the Finnish word.
Then we have the word 'guta' which means yummy. You can ask "is it guta?" meaning "is it yummy?"
Or man, I feel like something 'guta', when you fancy something yummy.
I think some people use the same word for candy but at our house it's just anything yummy.
Then we have a really strange word which is 'ids' or to 'idas'.
It means to kind want to or be bothered to do something.
Like, "I 'ids' not go there" means that I probably won't go there or...
"Ids not do that" (makes no sense in English haha) means... Stop. Doing that.
Like... Urgh, it's so hard to explain! And that's why it's crazy that this word isn't used in normal Swedish.
Then we've got the last word which is to 'stritta' which means to splash.
But you can use it for that or you can use it to say if you're leaving somewhere, like we're gonna 'stritta'
Like, we're gonna get outta here quick, we're gonna 'stritta', like we're gonna dash, like make a splash when you leave.
Double meaning.
So that was the 20 'finlandssvenska' words I wanted to teach you today
Perhaps the most random list of words ever put together.
But there you go, that's 'finlandsvenska' for you!
So now you've once again learned a bit more about Swedish speaking Finns
and what it means to be a Swedish speaking Finn and how we speak.
Wow! You can learn anything on YouTube!
Thanks ever so much for watching this video, I really hope that you enjoyed it!
If you did, feel free to give it a thumbs up or leave a comment, it makes me so very happy!
Take care in the meantime, enjoy the summer now that it's arrived and I'll see you soon!
Bye!
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