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[–] Kiwi_fella@lemmy.world 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

I'm currently trying to learn Finnish. This stresses me out.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 43 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Don't worry, this doesn't matter and we have a lot of harder stuff in the language which does matter

[–] MTLion3@lemm.ee 22 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Oh good, that’s encouraging lol

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 18 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I'm kidding. We appreciate everyone trying, even if they don't get possessiivisuffiksis right

[–] MTLion3@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago
[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do normal people, because in your neighboring country, 50 year olds can't spell

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 5 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Sorry, are you asking how our average person handles the language?

Native Finnish speakers seem to suck at compound words and punctuation on average, old and young.

People learning Finnish differ as they seem to (someone learning please speak up) struggle with double consonants, declension (had to google that word) and how spoken language is different from written official rules. I think all of these are mostly automatic to someone with Finnish as a mother tongue.

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, Finnish compound words are pain in the ass.

[–] boredtortoise@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

It's a pet peeve of mine to see them done dirty but lately I've thought that maybe they've been written by someone dyslexic or with something else as their first language and have become more lenient.

But still...

[–] Kanda@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Yes, I am asking if the average person gets possessiivisuffiksis right. I suppose I wasn't as clear as I should have been. Nevertheless it seems my question was more or less answered

[–] hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Start from deciphering this

Kokoo koko kokko kokoon. Koko kokkoko kokoon? Koko kokko kokoon.

[–] downbad@yiffit.net 6 points 11 months ago

assemble the whole bonfire. All of the bonfire? All of the bonfire.

my brain hurts