Just trying to share a Finnish song that I like plus trying to translate it he he...
TikTak - Mutta Ma Rakastan Sua
Pidän vapaudesta (I like freedom)
Pidän musiikista (I like music)
Pidän siitä kun jalat vie ja järki luovuttaa (I like it when feet lead me and common sense gives up)
Pidän ystävistä (I like friends)
Niistä eläimistä (Those animals)
Pidän siitä kun aamuneljään ollaan hereillä (I like staying awake at 4 am)
refrain:
Mutta mä rakastan sua (But I love you)
Sitä kun sä tuut ikkunaan (When you come to the window)
Kun sä pudotat avaimen ja se kieppuu ilmassa (When you drop the key and it swings in the air)
Mutta mä rakastan sua (But I love you)
Kun sä odotat ovella (When you wait by the door)
Pidän siitä kun sä synnyit tähän samaan maailmaan (I like it when you were born into this same world)
Pidän hämärästä (I like twilight)
Ihmisvilinästä (Human hustle and bustle)
Kun joku vanha pari pitää toistaan kädestä (When an old couple hold hands)
Pidän kaupungista (I like the city)
Pidän kolinasta, (I like the noise)
Joka tulee kun loikkaa viisi viime porrasta (That I hear when I jump the last five steps of the stairs)
refrain
Katson nimikirjaimiin (I look at the initials)
Harmaisiin, haalenneisiin (Grey and pale)
Vanhoihin luokkakuviin (Old class pictures)
(Vanhoihin luokkakuviin) (Old class pictures)
Vähemmän kuin aiemmin (Less than before)
refrain
Mutta mä rakastan sua (But I love you)
Sitä kun sä tuut ikkunaan (When you come to the window)
Kun sä pudotat avaimen ja se kieppuu ilmassa (When you drop the key and it swings in the air)
Mutta mä rakastan sua (But I love you)
Kun sä odotat ovella (When you wait at the door)
Pidän siitä kun äkkiä ei tarvi juostakaan (I like it when all of a sudden we don't need to run)
Kun ollaan liikkumatta ihan paikallaan (When we stay still where we are)
Last week I made a HUGE pot of meatball soup, thinking that I could bring some for my in-laws. I made them by mixing up salmon meat and mince meat with two eggs and salt and pepper plus a little bit of rice flour. Then I turned them into balls and put them inside boiling water and waited until they were done.
Here's the picture:
When I brought some to my mom-in-law, she asked me what it was, so I said: "Lihapallo keitto." (liha = meat, pallo = ball, keitto = soup)
She asked again, "Mitä?"
Then hubby said, "LihaPULLA!"
We all laughed out loud. Even though pallo means ball, but "meatball" in Finnish is actually "lihapulla". Pallo can be used in combination for "soccer" = "jalkapallo", but not for meatball.
Oh sheeshhhh...it's SO funny when you're learning a new language hi hi hi...
I really LOVE this song, so let me just share it here with you and let me try to translate the lyrics, too. Darn, it's SO hard to translate it!
Rauhan Aika (In Times of Peace) - Sara
Vain heikkous voi
Lupauksen murtaa
Harvoin teen sen tahallani
(Only weakness can break a promise
I rarely do it on purpose)
Lähellä ei aina kiinni saa
Vain heikkous voi
Lupaukset murtaa
(Being close doesn't mean you can always catch
Only the weak can break promises)
Vaikka tahdon kaiken kieltää
Tiedän etten paeta voi
Pakko myöntää kaikki virheet
Kuinka paljon korjata voin
(Although I want to deny everything
I know that I can't escape
I have to admit all my mistakes
How much can I fix?)
Vain heikkous voi
Totuuden peittää
Teen sen näin
Niin helposti hyväksyn sen
(Only weakness can cover the truth
I did it like this
So easily I approved it)
Vaikka tahdon kaiken kieltää
Tiedän etten paeta voi
Pakko myöntää kaikki virheet
Kuinka paljon korjata voin
(Although I want to deny everything
I know that I can't escape
I have to admit all my mistakes
How much can I fix?)
Virheitään ei näe
Lähellä vain jää
Toisen jalkoihin
Lähellä
(Don't see mistakes
Just stay close
To other's feet
Close)
Vaikka tahdon kaiken kieltää
Tiedän etten paeta voi
Voiko murheet kaiken viedä
Kuinka paljon takaisin saan
(Although I want to deny everything
I know that I can't escape
If I can take away all my troubles
How much will I get back?)
Today I was reading hubby's Aku Ankka (Donald Duck) and found this phrase: "Tuo oli viimeinen pisara."
Uncle Scrooge was angry at a bear who tried to eat him and then it tried to steal his money hi hi hi hi...so he basically said, "It was the last straw!" and he went berserk!!!
I looked up "pisara" in the dictionary and it literally means "a drop".
Example: sadepisara = a raindrop, whereas vesipisara = a drop of water.
I browsed online to find more examples of use for sadepisara and vesipisara and here are they:
1. Yhtään vesipisaraa ei vielä ole taivaalta tippunut. (taken from here)
Ei yhtään = not at all
Vielä = yet
Taivas = sky ---> root: taivaa- + -lta = taivaalta
Tippua = fall ---> on tippunut = has fallen
Not one drop of water has fallen down from the sky yet.
2. Montako sadepisaraa valtameressä on? (taken from here)
Valtameri = ocean
How many raindrops are there in the ocean?
Read this passage in this website:
Kerran satuin kysymään englanniksi, paljonko kello on. Se , jolta kysyin, alkoi juosta, ja minä juoksin perään, koska en tiennyt, miksi hän juoksi. Halusin tietää, paljonko kello on. Hän juoksi, ja minä juoksin perässä ja kysyin koko ajan, paljonko kello on. Sitten minä tajusin: - Voi että, hän juoksee minua pakoon! (Renata)
The website is filled with experiences of expats in Finland. Let me translate what she wrote and let's assume that the person she talked to was a woman. I really feel for her when reading the passage. :-((((
"Once I happened to ask someone (in English) what time it was. The person started to run and I ran after her, because I didn't know why she ran. I just wanted to know what time it was. She ran and all the while I was running after her, I kept on asking what time it was. And then I realized, "Oh dear, she's trying to escape from me!"
As I continued learning Finnish from the book we got from the full-time Finnish course, I found this interesting sentence:
Jos voittaisin lotossa, ostaisin ison talon meren rannalta. (conditional form)
Translation: If I won the lottery, I'd buy a big house on the seashore.
What I found odd was the use of "rannalta" (which literally means "from the beach").
In English and Indonesian, if translated literally to Finnish, it should be "rannalla" (which literally means "on the beach").
I asked hubby about this and turns out that for the word "ostaa" (dictionary form), you have to use the -sta/stä or -lta/ltä endings, since it means you're buying something FROM someone or some place.
Other examples:
a. Ostin ison sanakirjan kirjakaupasta. (I bought a big dictionary from the bookstore.)
----> The -n ending in "iso" and "sanakirja" means that you're buying only ONE big dictionary (only applicable for countable objects).
b. Ostin pienen talon Haastajantieltä. (I bought a small house at Haastajantie - Haastajantie is a name of a street)
c. Ostan käytettyjä vaatteita häneltä. (I'll buy used clothes from her/him)
----> Here I use the partitive plural for the object (used clothes).
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