Counting in Finnish

learn numbers in Finnish.
Цифры на финском языке, учим считать!

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Finnish
• counting
• финский язык
• suomi
• suomea
• suomen kieli

[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!

[lameaddict132]

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

[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.

[roryfitzpatric]

ROFL at the fast counting

[Nikotiini69]

@Zizumia1 When you first learn the letters, you can spell anything. English has different ways to spell all the vocals, Finnish is like this: 1 letter = 1 sound, always. So when you learn to say a it's always the same (compare to English words like cat, page, beard, banana. All of those have different a sounds. Only banana has the Finnish a, while cat has ä, page has ei and beard has ö I guess.)

[Nikotiini69]

@ShadowdragonII That is completely wrong! It's obviously kahdeksansataakahdeksankymment­äkahdeksanmiljoonaa kahdeksansataakahdeksankymment­äkahdeksantuhatta kahdeksansataakahdeksankymment­äkahdeksan.

[timsippala]

@ShadowdragonII, very good try! A bit more standard way to say it is kahdeksansataakahdeksankymment­äkahdeksan miljoonaa kahdeksansataakahdeksankymment­äkahdeksan tuhatta. :D

[snehesten]

You just hold on for dear life at the 90's, hearing "evacuate, she's gonna blow!!" in the background, while preparing to see your browser stop responding.. And then it's only four letters

[cailinify]

@thepsi24 692 is kuusisataayhdeksänkymmentäkaks­i. Viisi = five, kuusi = six. And when you go into hundreds, you say "sataa", with an extra 'a'. :)

[ShadowdragonII]

If somebody wants to know, number 888 888 888 written in Finnish language is: kahdeksansataa miljoonaa kahdeksankymmentä miljoonaa kahdeksan miljoonaa kahdeksansataa tuhatta kahdeksankymmentä tuhatta kahdeksan tuhatta kahdeksansataa kahdeksankymmentä kahdeksan.

[Zizumia1]

and I thought writing out twenty-eight in English was a little long, I can't imagine writing out kakskikymmentäkahdeksan... I mean, how do you learn how to spell such a thing as a child? Lol

[thepsi24]

Would 692 be viisisatayhdeksänkymmentäkaksi­?