Counting in Finnish

[doubleAAbatteries687]

Wow.German is way easier than this.

it goes:eins zwei drei vier funf sech sieben acht neun zehn etc.

[Zugvogel1]

Perrrrrrrkele.... :O)

[Haarpunzel]

The "sata"moment was hilarious. Because after all these tongue twisters you end up with such an anti-climax! ;))

I will spend my semester abroad in Tampere, and I am starting to familiarize with the Finnish language. Your upload has already helped me very much :).

[NisMOVIE]

love this language :X :D

[Shazza2Kewl99]

Jotkut sanat ovat erittäin kovat kuin kahdeksankymmentäseitsemän!!

[DovahCast]

ei voi olla näin perkeleen vaikeaa suomi O.O

[lameaddict132]

the awkward moment when no. 100 is just 4 letters long while the other no.s are like 20 letters long

[kiteenlahti]

One question.. Why seitsemän and yhdeksän has the "ä" character but kahdeksan doesn't?

[timsippala]

@kiteenlahti @kiteenlahti it is called assimilation or vocal harmony, related to front and back wovels. The wovels "y" and "e" in "seitsemän" and "ydeksän" are front vowels, that is pronounced with tongue in front of the mouth. It is just easier to have the last vowel also a front vowel "ä" instead of a back vowel "a".

[timsippala]

In the word "kahdeksan" the first vowel "a" is a back wovel and the second "e" a front wovel ... but then the thrid vowel in "ksAn" comes a front vowel and but not a back vowel. Why? Obviously it is influenced by the strong first vowel "a". For every Finn that comes naturally, it is even diffcult to pronounce "kahdeksÄn" for them.

[kiteenlahti]

@timsippala thanks!! :)

[hoegg]

i find this very hard to masturbate to

[treicy80]

usso taunta

[RIPHeadphoneUsersRIP]

Can anybody write the number ''888'' FULL IN FINNISH??

[HaMoFan]

@RIPHeadphoneUsersRIP kahdeksansataakahdeksankymment­äkahdeksan

[timsippala]

kahdeksansataakahdeksankymment­äkahdeksan

( kahdeksan-sataa-kahdeksan-kymm­entä-kahdeksan)

100 - sata

200 - kaksi sataa

300 - kolme sataa

400 - neljä sataa

etc.

[RIPHeadphoneUsersRIP]

28 in English = Twenty-eight

28 in Finnish = kaksikymmentäkahdeksan

See the difference 0.o

[wearenothingnow]

rofled so hard thanks to the 100+ counting :D such a cute language! love from sweden

[Azuresong]

are you shitting me

[sheshepartytime]

llolll



[Weaponseeker]

HOLY SHIT! Learning finnish is...difficult... There are no conjunctions between the germanic and the finish language...

[sammakkotonttu]

But if you ask some finnish person to count to ten, instead of saying yksi, kaksi, kolme, neljä, viisi, kuusi, seitsemän, kahdeksan, yhdeksän, kymmenen, the person will more likely say yks, kaks, kol(me), nel(jä), viis, kuus, seittemän, kaheksan, yheksän, kymmenen. Some kids even count like this: yy, kaa, koo, nee, vii, kuu, see, kasi, ysi, kymppi.

[Tinymoezzy]

Not so hard to learn the counting but I still suck at using the Finnish R. Any tips on rolling the r the right way. Any sayings that might help???

[timothythefinn]

@Tinymoezzy Try this: "Bend the tip of your tongue up very slightly just behind your top gums. Specifically the tip of your tongue should be loose and just below the roof of the mouth between the upper teeth and the hard palate: the alveolar ridge. The part of your mouth that contains the tooth sockets is the right place to be" then try to say very sharp "d" sound, remember to bend your tongue. Then try to make the tip of yor tongue vibrate.

[timothythefinn]

Then try to say "dr" sounds, the words "drop", "drip". Remeber to try to make "d" as hard and sharp as you can, and let the tip of your tongue vibrate. You can even practise by replacing any r with d in any words and just to remind yourself to make it hard and let it vibrare. You'll learn very quickly!

[Tinymoezzy]

@timothythefinn Thank you, very helpful.

[Shazza2Kewl99]

@timothythefinn Haha, päädyn sanoa jannu haha

[rannveig83]

hahaha this is amazing language:)

so different compared to other northern languages....

[ThePurplelittlelady]

aaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh­hhh D;

[duongngocvuminh]

If even their language is that hard,no wonder how they fked up the Soviet in winter war,they always do hard stuffs lol

[Jalapablo]

What a fascinating, ridiculously-intimidating structure of words. I know it's a logical framework, and not half as bad as it looks....but it sure looks frightening.

[krackeckerkrakecker]

i surrender

[W4ffle98]

Kahdeksansataamiljoonaakuusiky­mmentäkolmetuhattaviisitoista. Take that NON finnish people >:D

[ImberFuscinae]

@W4ffle98 WTF?

[W4ffle98]

@ImberFuscinae Eight hundred Sixty Three Million Fifteen Thousand :P

[ViolaFall]

@W4ffle98 you just broke my brain D:

[HoldThisHandTightly]

WHAT THE FUUUUUCK how is it even possible for an european country to have such complicated words I mean what the fuck is up with "yhdeksantoista" what kind of a fucked up word is that holy shit dude

[preeriaorav]

it is good to be Estonian. Learning Finnish numbers dont take more than 5 minutes :D But if you are not Estonian then you have a big problem :D

[SpidarStar]

@CrystallDratini 462 218 927 182 = neljäsataakuusikymmentäkaksimi­ljardiakaksisataakahdeksantois­tamiljoonaayhdeksänsataakaksik­ymmentäseitsemäntuhattasatakah­deksantoista.

[lennartgro]

it seems for me that scrabble is very difficult in finnishxD

[RabbitLotion]

mindrapemindrapemindrapemindra­pemindrapemindrapemindrapemind­rapemindrapemindrapemindrapemi­ndrapemindrapemindrapemindrape­mindrapemindrapemindrapemindra­pemindrapemindrapemindrapemind­rapemindrapemindrapemindrapemi­ndrapemindrapemindrapemindrape­mindrapemindrapemindrapemindra­pemindrape..........

[bobfari]

@timothythefinn HOLY SHIT!!!!!! THIS IS TOO HARD FOR ME!!!!! and by the way, are you English? because you sound like your from North England!!!!

[nicolasmauser]

i did i learn it !! HAHAHA

[SasukesMagic]

SATA!!!! that's all i remember, idc if i can watch the video again -.-

[Hyyra]

2 174 846 938 = kaksimiljardiasataseitsemänkym­mentäneljämiljoonaakahdeksansa­taaneljäkymmentäkuusituhattayh­deksänsataakolmekymmentäkahdek­san

whats so hard?

[annavymetal]

I can count to 20 in Finnish thanks to this video!!!! ♥

[PlasticEndorphin]

kaksi mean shit in Hungary :D That's the hungarian-finnish evidence of linguistic affinity ;)

[Ianassa91]

13 785 369 = kolmetoistamiljoonaaseitsemäns­ataakahdeksankymmentäviisituha­ttakolmesataakuusikymmentäyhde­ksän. Simple.

[sippala]

@Ianassa91, see so easy and logical :P

[Ianassa91]

@sippala yes, especially for me as a Finn :P Its sounds stupid but finnish counting is way easier than french or german for example. The germans say 24 = "Fier und tswantschich" (four and twenty) which is stupid in my opinion, the french dont ewen have a clear system.

[filmchief]

@Ianassa91 hahaha that's true! i am swiss and in swissgerman it sounds different than in german... i've been learning french for about 5 1/2 years but i still have a big problems with the numbers in french... :)

[uneksija666]

@Ianassa91

yes :D soooo simple how can ppll evem make mistakes here :d

[NurjanArystanov]

Finnish is so similar to Japanese and Korean！！

[Evenstar631]

8 000 011 = kahdeksanmiljoonaayksitoista

[YoumiChasu]

wtf o.O

[TinyLittleSilver]

Bejeebers those numbers are long! :O

[yurikomuro]

ugh wonder what the stock market floors are like finland. ksalfisjwhjghsuoifhwshalsjdhga­lsdkjghlaskjdhglkjsdglas shares of Ikea.

[FPSabrina]

@yurikomuro They just use regular arabian numbers.

[JennyAngel93]

I don't think it's too hard to learn the numbers...it's very logical and the pronounciation isn't too difficult as well :)



[lauuura878]

EVEN I- As a Finn- think that finnish is such a fucked up language xDDD

[timothythefinn]

@lauuura878 haha :D I think if I wouldn't be a native Finnish speaker I would dream about speaking Finnish at least.

[serichejr]

@timothythefinn what is the origin of the finnish language? can't relate it to any germanic language and even less with my native tongue spanish

[TheManForRealz]

@serichejr Finnish language comes from western russia, near Ural, and the base language is Finno-ugric :D There is also loan words from german, swedish, english, and russian. Finnish is also one of the hardest languages to learn.

[lauuura878]

@timothythefinn: ;))))

[MrKiraff]

@lauuura878

Still, that is the ONLY language you can actually speak (not write, i think).

So, go back to the drawing board or shut the **** up.

[lauuura878]

@MrKiraff: :DDD eeasyy eeasyy

[kiente09]

@lauuura878 You say that cause you do not want to speak Finnish to non-native speakers and keep it to yourself, you are racist. You native finnish speakers want to keep the language to yourself and not share it with others. Sä sanoit näin koska sä et halua puhua mamuille ja muille neekereille suomeksi. Suomi kuuluu maailmalle, ei teille rasistit duunarit

[MoriAryka]

to difficult for me

those words are so loooooooong and I find it hard to remember all the characters correctly.

why do Finnish people have to make their language with many characters in a word?

[timothythefinn]

@MoriAryka don't give up. It is not that difficult than it first looks. The words are long but there is a logic in it, usually the long words consist of two or more basic words and very often there are suffixes attached to the end of the word. With practice you will figure out the logic very soon. See: kaksi-kymmentä-kolme (23) kolme-kymmentä-viisi (35). It is very easy when you grab the idea. Good luck :)

[MoriAryka]

@timothythefinn thank you. I'll try my best, but I think it's gonna be tough though. ^__^

learning a new language is never that easy...

[timothythefinn]

@MoriAryka may be a bit tough but still ok especially if you got the opportunity to practise in real life situation. And learning a new language is much easier when you are young. I wish I could still be young so that I could learn Japanese, Chinese and Thai. At my age it is much more difficult and slower, I have tried :) And when I was young we had to learn language almost from books only, we didn't have the internet. That was tough ^_^

[timothythefinn]

It's true with Finnish, as with many other languages with long words, that many speakers, especially of dialects, shorten words, and that's ok in many cases but not always. Still I would recommend a beginner learner of the language would try to learn the official forms first, and then let the shorter ones come naturally later, and they will, especially if you use the language in a natural environment.

[9HK4]

Most people (depends on the accent too i guess) dont say yksi, kaksi, kolme, neljä and so on when counting.

"Yksi" for example can also be said "yks" or "yy", and its completely correct to pronounce it that way.

And "kaksikymmentä"(20) is often "kakskyt"

[HeiHakan]

very much similar to the structure of the turkish numbers, yes the words are totaly different but the order and structure is the same

[theeasyma]

kahdeksankymmentäseitsemän is my favorite :D

love that language!

[MegaPrincess1818]

I'd love to learn this language.. me being spanish, the words are very easy to say and the words to pronounce

[Communist2012]

finnish is a very cute language :3 i imagine pokemons speak finnish in my dreams

[EmoUndergroundRi]

omöjlig. 

[GermanMusic1]

So funny, damn some german words are really long, but finish words lol

[baskaaas]

veery long words ;P

[puistis]

Just to confuse you peeps, 1 = yy, 2 = kaa, 3 = koo, 4 = nee, 5 = vii etc.

You can actually shorten the sentence it self and yet you speak fluent finnish.

Basicly you take the first letter and make it triple. This works to 9 =)

[Youlubucki]

@puistis and also 1 = yks, 2 = kaks, 3 = kol, 4 = nel, 5 = viis etc. 'kymmentä' can be shortened to 'kyt', 'ket' or 'köt'. so for exemple 45 can be said like nelkytviis

[Haaleee97]

When you watch this; Shit will brix

[TheAbri55]

yhdeksänkykümmentäyhdeksän....­............. Sata... XDXDXD love finnish :D

[timothythefinn]

@TheAbri55 That's cool! "YhdeksänkYmmentäyhdeksän" :D

[TheSkyandClouds]

It seems that the cat is also learning Finnish :) :) :) (Listen very carefully ;) )

[timothythefinn]

@TheSkyandClouds You are very smart :) Yes there was a cat with me. His name is Misu. It's a typical Finnish cat name :D He performs in another YouTube video playing with your dog. Look up "Cat and dog playing together"

[EmilxLollipop]

i knew 1-3 from when i was a child, the rest is mindfucking to me x3

[Sofi3Jackson]

He says cock quite a lot, huh? =3=;;; XD

[Dooooodle]

Lol i cannot wait to be speaking finnish xD

[sweetmusicfan1]

Toista toista toista mentä mentä mentä kuusi kuusi kuusi seistema ---something like that anyways fun vid

[LordVoldemort839]

Day = Made.

[kirbienstien]

well so much for learning finnish for fun...

[Audinos]

Perkele!

[runnynight]

WOW we only have to say three words when saying 78 in Taiwanese !!

sorry I'm not being offensive, just a little bit shocked XD

qi-shi-ba (7-10-8)

[tharaniannapoorni]

Thank you . .

[timothythefinn]

@tharaniannapoorni you are welcome :)

[TheShainabeth]

th way you did this is really good, it makes learning the numbers so easy :) thank you

[timothythefinn]

@TheShainabeth Thank you for the comment. I'm glad to hear that!

[uneksija666]

haha in my country kaksi means how are you :D

[timothythefinn]

@uneksija666 I know a little bit of Croatian, and yes, I have learnt to ask "Kako si danas?" meaning "How are you today" :)

[lovelyxskinny]

LOL i love finnish and i remember learning the numbers. learned them over 6 years ago in just minutes and i still remember =D beautiful language :D

[KeiChii07]

*brain broke*

[SC1337]

wow that takes a lot of work lol 

[runafes]

seriously?

[Michella230792]

Try a little slower in the end :)

[SixthOfTheCircle]

finnish just rolls off my tongue i love this language...

[rajgy]

@jlspma

The Hungarian language is relativ to the finnish. They bild the numbers both on the same way. I find the the finnish and hungarian numbers much more logical then the French ones or the German ones.:

HUN: 78 (= 70 + 8) hetven-nyolc (6+5)

FRA 78 (= 60 + 18) Soixante dix-huit (8+7)

GER: 78 (= 8 + 70) acht-und-siebzig (4+3+7)

[noxbc9701040]

Hide and seek must be very different in Finland.

[juliosdutra]

@noxbc9701040 for sure... hahahahahaa

[MoonChild238]

@noxbc9701040 The spoken language is much more simple, for example 65=kuuskytviis :)

[faselblaDer3te]

@noxbc9701040

This comment is so much win XD

[alessiear]

@noxbc9701040 How so ? I mean no offense , i am just interested.

[pucksaver95]

ydeksänkammentäkahdeksan

[MagicalSunrise1984]

wow - that's totally new to me - very different from any language i know!

[AlbournoTv]

11: nix im toaster

12: kake im toaster

13: cola im toaster

14: mehl im toaster

15: wixxe im toaster

16: kuh im toaster

17: segemehl im toaster

hahaha

[NeonZ94]

Thank you so much for this video! Very clear, very specific! I totally loved it. Hope you don't mind, but I downloaded it to keep in my I-pod in order to practice ^_^

Finnish is such a pretty language! I can't wait for next year to start Finnish classes!

[timothythefinn]

@NeonZ94 Good on you :) Good luck for your studies of Finnish! Let me know how it goes.

[janeck123]

want to learn finnish? Search Channel named  inFinnish

[Davidkadg]

thanks a lot !!! clear and easy, you are very good teacher!!

Muchas gracias!!! claro y facil, tu eres muy buen maestro!!

[timothythefinn]

@Davidkadg Thank you :)))

[QBluetooth]

здесь была кошка!

[timothythefinn]

@QBluetooth  Конежно, кошка же нужна )))

[Inkspeckle]

so the logic behind this is just like in german or english, except that we don't use words THAT long :) but thanks for helping me learning finnish :D I really like the language

[TheForgottenLonging]

4:25... alright, you won

[TheForgottenLonging]

*talks with a good speed* 3:18 *drinks some energy drink* ... 3:21 "Whoo, slow down!!" 4:08 "Aaargh!! Where's the Slow Motion button?!"

[psychosuey]

More than anything else, this has helped my pronounciation tenfold. kiitos! Sinä olet kaunis!

[timothythefinn]

@psychosuey Ole hyvä =)

[RiKoTheKing]

I was waiting for the pronuciation of 100 with an extra large word and what does he says? SATA!..... shit!!!

[jlspma]

@RiKoTheKing it seems like he's forgotten the 'n'=D

[jlspma]

Are you serious? You need a 26-letter word to say 78 in finnish?

Compare:

ENG: Seventy-eight (12)

SPA: Setenta y ocho (7+1+4)

POR: Setenta-e-oito(7+1+4)

NOR: Syttiatte(10)

FRE: Soixante dix-huit(8+7)

SUOMI: seitsemänkymmentäkahdeksan(26 LETTERS!!!!WTF?!)

[prichards76]

@jlspma I've just only just started to learn my first words in Finnish and I agree there are some bloody long ones!

[jlspma]

@prichards76 I've gotten used to them now..=) That was me 2 months ago=)

[Tygggrr]

@jlspma Yeah it's long but usually, in Finnish, you're supposed to write numbers over 20 in numbers. And at least it's a simple system; I never understood the French system. Why the hell do I need to say sixty, when I'm talking about seventy!

[jlspma]

@Tygggrr Yeah, well the french and german systems are quite confusing. Finnish numbers have an easy system once you know the numbers 1-10. But learning the words themselves is hard, because Finnish has a language that is completely alien to the rest of Europeans (excluding Estonians). Normally you can memorize words because they sort of sound the same (ocho, oito, huit, eight, acht, etc.....) however Finns, Hungarians and Turks have completely alien languages with completely different numbers.=D

[julesiscool11]

@jlspma hahaha Locals abbreviate all the numbers so they aren't so long! They are only long when they are written but when numbers are written they are written just like this 123456789!

So yksi is yks, kaksi is kaks, kolme is kol, nelja is nel, viisi is viis, you get the picture!

[jlspma]

@julesiscool11 if you were to say this number (1,345,551) in quick native conversation, what would it be if if it isn't YksiMiljonaKolmeSataaNeljäKymm­entaViisiTuhettaViisiSataaViis­iKymmentaYksi.

Would it be (orally): YksMiljonaKolSataaNelKymmeViis­TuhettaViisSataaViisKymmeYks?

[julesiscool11]

@jlspma almost.

you dont need to say yksimiljoona just miljoona.

so. miljoonkolsatanelkymviistuhatv­iissataviisikymyks

dont hold me to that though, its so hard to write what you are saying! :P

but as a learner just say the full version, you dont need to write them out and saying them is easy!

[toooffu]

@jlspma I heard that translaters at the EU parlament claim that the documents translated to finnish have 20% more pages than others, but I hear to much these days so it may be a tale.

[jlspma]

@toooffu real or fake it's a funny piece of statistics. Just comes to show why finns blabber on and on...unnecessarily, to be honest=D You notice the translations between one language and finnish and the amt. of characters that just seem to appear out of nowhere is astonishing. I dunno if u are finnish particularly, but it must be hard for finns to write comments on YTube and portray their message clearly, without running out of space. I run out of space myself, and I write in Eng or Portuguese

[snuffe8]

@jlspma That's why no one speaks formal language :) Everyone says "seitkytkahdeksan" = 16 letters

[kayusica]

@jlspma Actually, there are 9 characters in norsk. :P

[MagicalSunrise1984]

@jlspma

the upper point is that it says seventy-eight - like in english

not seven and one and four

etc

[kouluampuja96]

@jlspma in spoken language any finn would say it more like "seitkytkaheksa" only 14 :)

[rajgy]

@jlspma

The Hungarian language is relativ to the finnish. They bild the numbers both on the same way. Not like the Fenchs or Germans:

-

HUN: 78 (= 70 + 8) hetven-nyolc (6+5)

FRA 78 (= 60 + 18) Soixante dix-huit (8+7)

GER: 78 (= 8 + 70) acht-und-siebzig (4+3+7)

[HesseJamez]

@jlspma

Germans do it vice versa, we say "Achtundsiebzig" = eight and seventy.

[Fatshady82]

@jlspma Can you believe that these guys practically invented the Sms function on mobile phones, and limited the messages to 160 characters? Finnish telecom companies must have made fortunes on sms! ;-)

[jlspma]

@Fatshady82 looolll

[greeenrain]

@Fatshady82 Actually we write our sms with spoken&internet language so it's shorter to write. Like when it comes to numbers we say&write those much more short way like 56 would be "viiskytkuus" or even shorter way "viikuu", 44 "nelkytneljä" or "neenee".. Our other words are shorter too and btw we prefer saying "se" (=it) instead of "hän" (=he/she) haha.

[95DANGER]

@jlspma I know that this isn't directly connected, but the longest word for a number in english is: TREMILLIAMILLIAMILLIATRECENTTR­ETRIGINMILLIAMILLIATRECENTTRET­RIGINMILLIATRECENTDOTRIGINTILL­ION (94 letters) ant this number is a one, followed by 10 000 zeroes

[phr4nk3rd00d13]

@jlspma English: 4 syllables. Spanish: 6 syllables. Portuguese: 6 syllables. Norwegian: 3 syllables. French: 4 syllables. Finnish: 9 syllables. That's a more accurate way of comparing. :P The imaginary German word "Tschietsch" would be written "cheech" in English. Letter-wise: German orthography: 10 letters. English orthography: 6 letters. Both 1 syllable. But hey, haha, for anyone's amusement: 3:25 is when the speed starts picking up to make up for the time spent on multiple syllables.... xD

[Horrorlord1]

@jlspma Your french translation is terrible....

[eskorbutin89]

@jlspma its pretty simple actually, because seitsemänkymmentäkahdeksan, is like saying seven-tens-eight in english, it may look long, but it's not that complicated really

[MsEiLeeN1986]

I will be making a trip to Finland, end of this year to see my boyfriend. We have been dating for a year now and I am trying to learn as much Finnish as I could before I go over.. This has certainly helped me a lot! Kiitos! The only thing my bf thought me was kiitos and some swear words.. hahaha.. This is MUCH better! I am Malaysian, by the way. So terima kasih (Kiitos)

[hanniiihp]

kiitos

[timothythefinn]

@hanniiihp Ole hyvä :)

[XxNEVERMINDxX17]

This helped me so much, thank you for uploading!

[timothythefinn]

@XxNEVERMINDxX17 You are welcome. I also made it :)

[BagaStinger007]

Is this end of your lessons? =*(

[timothythefinn]

@BagaStinger007 I hope not. Sorry, I have been a bit busy and didn't have lots of inspiration. For a few year I have and a plan for the course called "Финский язык для металлистов / Finnish for metalheads" but haven't god into implementing it yet. May be I should start it soon ...

[OriginalMindTrick]

I laughed at your pronunciation first time i saw this.

Kan du prata svenska?

I would probably laugh at me speaking swedish too.. :)

[timothythefinn]

@OriginalMindTrick Ja, jag kan prata svenska och det är finlandssvenska. Har du hört det? Det är lite annorlunda än sverigesvenska :)

[radbie]

Thank you so much! This really helped me....now I know how to count in Finnish! Kiitos! My grandma taught me yski - kymmenen when I was younger but I had forgotten parts of it. She also taught me the word paska....lol!

[timothythefinn]

@radbie haha good on you, so nice memories of your grandma :D Yes, the word "paska" isn't very bad in Finnish and in some dialects it used to be even quite neutral.

[Jerails]

Lots of fun learning!

[timothythefinn]

Glad to hear that :) Best kind of feedback one can get!