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[chiara-klara-claire]

Aesthetic/cute idioms

My personal selection of idioms collected here and there. Inspired by this post by @rmscarpathia - my posts - resources masterpost | aesthetic idioms | words with cute literal meaning

Japanese 🇯🇵

木漏れ日 Komorebi - The sunlight that filters through the leaves of the trees. 🌳 🌞

鏡花水月 Kyōka suigetsu  - Flower in the mirror & a moon in the water 🌸 🌙 : something which is visible and cannot be touched as well as the profound beauty of poems that cannot be described in words.

花笑み Hanaemi - flowering smile/ the smile of flowers 💐: old Japanese, a  smile as beautiful as blooming flowers, calling people to feel happy.

浮世 Ukiyo - The floating world -  depicts a place of fleeting beauty and living in the moment, without worries. It described the urban lifestyle, especially the pleasure-seeking aspects, of the Edo-period Japan (1600–1867)

Chinese 🇨🇳

海誓山�� Hǎi shì shān méng - The promises of mountains and vows of seas 🏔 🌊 : A proverb of eternal love.

日三 秋 yí rì sān qiū 🍁🍁🍁- One day, three autumns:  when you intensely long for and miss someone, one day feels like three years.

Swedish 🇸🇪

Mångata - moon road 🌙 🛣The glimmering,roadlile reflection of moonlight on a river. see also Hungarian 🇭🇺 Aranyhíd - The golden bridge 🌞 🌁: A term for the reflection of the sun as it shines on water and can literally be translated to.

Gökotta - Dawn picnic to hear the first birdsong 🎶 (gök=cuckoo), Swedish tradition which often takes place around Ascension Day in late May or early June.

Smultronstället - Place of wild strawberries 🍓: a special place discovered, treasured, returned to for solace and relaxation; a personal idyll free from stress or sadness

Mellan hägg och syrén - the time Between Bird Cherry and Lilac: corresponds to försommar (pre-summer). The expression is said to originate from a cobbler’s sign saying his shop was closed “mellan hägg och syren”.

Att vara blåögd - to be blue eyed: to be naive =🇩🇪 blauäugig

Norwegian 🇳🇴

Å leve på luft og kjærlighed - live on air and love: to be so madly in love you don’t think about anything else

gjensynsglede - see-again-happiness: feeling of joy, anticipation, love you experience when you are about to meet someone you haven’t seen in a long time.

Det er bare blåbær - It’s just blueberries 🫐: Expression, meaning something is simple, or something is only a minor issue.

Danish 🇩🇰

det er fest og farver 🎉🟥🟨🟦- it’s party and colors: A lively and festive mood or way of living

Finnish 🇫🇮  @suomipaskea @depressingfinland​

Kaiho - hopeless longing: an involuntary solitude in which one feels incomleteness and yearns for something unattainable or extremely difficult and tedious to attain.

luonnonlapsi - nature’s child 🌿: a genuine and sincere person who’s carefree and down to earth, a scatterbrained, someone who doesn’t care about the ways of society. Slightly negative but in an endearing way [- @evelhak]

siirtyä ajasta ikuisuuteen/iäisyyteen / potkaista tyhjää- went from time to eternity / kicked the emptiness: said about someone who has died

Olla hyvällä tuulella— To be on / To have a good wind 🌬: To have a good mood. To be mildly happy.

oma maa mansikka, muu maa mustikka 🍓🫐-our land strawberry, other land blueberry: there’s no place like home

German 🇩🇪  This post with additions of @germanenthusiast

Etwas durch die Blume sagen 🗣️🌼- to say smth thorugh the flower: used when conveying something dramatic in a gentle or roundabout way

Habseligkeiten: have-holy-things: individual possessions that might be seen as useless/of little value, but regarded as valuable treasures

Fingerspitzengefühl - fingertips-feeling: good skill in handling things/ sensitivity and empathy

Sehnsucht - longing-search: intense inner longing for somebody, something or a place

Weltschmerz - world pain: gratuitous melancholia / kind of feeling experienced by someone who believes that physical reality can never satisfy the demands of the mind / the feeling of anxiety caused by the ills of the world

Zeitgeist - spirit of the time: the dominant set of ideals and beliefs that motivate the actions of the members of a society in a particular period in time

Engelsgeduld 👼- angel’s patience: a lot of patience

Schokoladenseite - chocolate side 🍫: refers to your better side (e.g. when taking a photo) sich von seiner Schokoladenseite zeigen (to show oneself from one’s chocolate side) = to show oneself at one’s best

Sich aufbrezeln - to bretzel oneself up 🥨: get all dressed up

Friede, Freude, Eierkuchen - freedom, joy and omelette 🥞:  everything’s hunky-dory

sich freuen wie ein Schneekönig 🤴❄️ /Honigkuchenpferd 🍯🍰 🐴 - to be happy like a snow king/honey cake horse: to be very very happy

Dutch 🇳🇱  @docnederlands

uitwaaien 🌬️ 🌳 - to go out in windy weather, particularly into nature or a park, as a means of refreshing oneself and clearing one's mind

over koetjes en kalfjes praten - talking about cows and calves 🐄: smalltalk

kalverliefde - calf love 🐮: A word for the temporary affection and infatuation usually experienced by two young people in love.

De bloemetjes buiten zetten, to put the flowers outside 💐: to have lots of fun

Italian 🇮🇹  this by @sectioavrea

Se son rose fioriranno, If it’s roses, they will bloom 🌹 : if something is bound to happen, it will

all’acqua di rose - blanded with rose water: used when something is very moderate

Non è tutto rose e fiori - it’s not all roses and flowers 🌹💐 : it’s not all nice and perfect (as you think it is)

il sole bacia i belli - The sun kisses the beautiful 🌞: said to someone who complains about sitting in the sun

baciato dalla fortuna - kissed by luck 🍀💋: to be very lucky

Ragazza acqua e sapone - soap&water girl 🧼 the girl next door, with a natural look

Avere l’argento vivo addosso - to have quicksilver on your body: to be energetic, active, lively. Often used for kids

Spaesato(m)/spaesata(f) -out of (one’s) country/native place “mis-country-ed”: to be bewildered, disoriented, confused

Sognare ad occhi aperti 👁️ - To dream with open eyes: to daydream

essere al settimo cielo ☁️ - to be at the seventh Heaven: to be over the moon, see 🇫🇷 below

French 🇫🇷

Être aux anges 👼👼- be where angels are

Être fleure bleue 🌼🔷- to be a blue flower: be sentimental to the point of naivety [apparently from an expression by the German author Novalis]

English

Serendipity: an unplanned fortunate discovery

Apple of my eye 🍎👁️ - 🇮🇹 Luce dei miei occhi (light of my eyes) 🇩🇪 Licht meines Lebens (light of my life)

Greek 🇬🇷

petrichor: the earthly scent produced when rain falls on dry soil 🌧️ . from πέτρος pétros (stone) + ἰχώρ īchṓr (the fluid that flows in the veins of gods in Greek mythology)

Phosphene - light-appear: a sensation of a ring, stars or spot of light caused by rubbing your eyes ⭐️ 👁️

🇻🇳 In Vietnamese, “to miss someone is the same as “to remember someone“. So to ask “do you miss me?” You’ll say Do you remember me?

🇮🇷 in Farsi, to answer to a compliment you say “it’s your eyes that are beautiful”

Idioms found among others through: @mylanguagesblogger, @wonderful-language-sounds @thenoaidi 

🌼 started: spring ‘20, posted: march ‘23, last updated: 20.4.2023

[thelanguagecommunity]

this post is meant to be a directory of every resource I come across for Finnish. it will be a continuous work in progress so thank you for your patience! if you have any issues or things to add, please reply to this post!

info

about world languages

fun facts

glottolog

introduction by @ayearinlanguage

language breakdown by @linguisticsbunker

learning profile

playlist of samples

the finnish language [video]

“this user is learning finnish” userbox

wikipedia

world atlas of language structures

alphabet & orthography

keyboard - branah

keyboard - typeit

letters in finnish

overview of finnish orthography

courses

a taste of finnish

bliubliu

book2

finnish for foreigners

finnish for foreigners 1 [pdf]

finnishpod101

fsi

mangolanguages

memrise

mondly

oneness

teach yourself: finnish [pdf]

unilang - finnish for beginners

uusikielemme

worddive - finnish for immigrants [mooc]

cultural & historical info

acultura’s culture tag

names & their meanings by @languagesandshootingstars

overview of finnicization

dictionaries

dicts.info

fincd

kielitomiston sanakirja

ses finnish-estonian dictionary

suomienglantisanakirja

suomisanakirija

urbaani sanakirja

wiktionary

forums

quora

unilang

grammar books & guides

iso suomen kielioppi

overview of finnish grammar

grammar points

adessive case

consonant gradation / overview of consonant gradation / consonant gradation

coordinating conjunctions

“joka”

locative system / overview of the finnish locative system

nominal inflection

noun cases / overview of noun cases

postpositions

vowel harmony

listening practice

librivox [audiobook library]

lyrikline [poetry library]

literature

Bible

Kalevala

list of finnish poets

logoslibrary [virtual library]

project gutenberg [virtual library]

Quran [scans]

rosary prayers

runeberg [virtual library]

media

pocoyo [youtube]

ted talks

v2.fi [tv player]

yle areena

movie recommendations

letterboxd

music recommendations

christmas songs masterpost by @languagesandshootingstars

disney songs [youtube playlist]

music masterpost by @languagesandshootingstars

spotify playlist by @languagesandshootingstars

spotify playlist by @polyglotinthemaking-blog

news

aamulehti

kaleva.fi

keskisuomalainen

suomen kuvalehti

turun sanomat

yle

phrasebooks & travel guides

loecsen [audio phrasebook]

wikivoyage

pronunciation

a report of the standford phonology archive [scans]

forvo [pronunciation dictionary]

overview of finnish phonology

quizzes & exercises

clozemaster

user-submitted exercises - quia

vocabulary games - digitaldialects

vocabulary games - internetpolyglot

vocabulary quizzes - iteslj

radio

radio sweden

social media

finnish [discord]

/r/finland [reddit]

top youtube channels in finland

wikipedia

youtuber recommendations by /r/finland

speaking tips

idioms

list of spoonerisms

mistakes english speakers make by @lilyfrances

profanity / overview of finnish profanity

regional finnish terms

tumblrs

@depressingfinland

@finlandfacts

@finnishfun

@finnishwordoftheday

@finnishwords

@sonetti

@suomi-finland-perkele

@thisisfinnish

verbs

agressive mood

conjugation table

conjugator - logosconjugator

conjugator - verbix

future

impersonal verbs

instructive case

momentane

“olla”

overview of verb conjugation

passive form

passive present tense

verb forms

verb list

wikiverb

vocabulary

all saints’ day

art

autumn

babadada [vocabulary tool]

baking

black friday

books

candy

cars

cleaning up

compliments

cooking

cozy

death

dinosaurs

dogs

easter

eurovision

father’s day

finland / finland

frequency lists

friday the 13th

halloween / halloween

hobbies / hobbies & interests

homonyms

introductions

kekri

kwanzaa

library

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onomatopeias

palindromes

parenting

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pigs

pizza

santa claus

shopping

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sign language

sleeping

snow

sun

top 88 vocabularies [scans]

toys

weather

wedding

youtube

finnishpod101

learn finnish with comedy

learn finnish with kirkou [playlist]

[lordofthebotch]

Speak your language day

Since it's speak your language day I bring you some fine knowledge about yhe Finnish language! Here's how you can conjugate the word dog in Finnish: Koira, koiran, koiraa, koiran, koirassa koirasta, koiraan, koiralla, koiralta, koiralle, koirana, koiraksi, koiratta, koirineen, koirin And that's just to name a few. There are plenty more if you wanna check out a blog called @depressingfinland Another thing I love is this sentence: "Herra Kokko, kokoa koko kokko kokoon." It means "Mr. Kokko (a finnish surname) gather up the whole bonfire." If you wanna learn curse words here's some good ones: Vittu Perkele (my personal fave) Saatana Jumalauta Helvetti Paska And a frace that teen usually use during school: "Vittu mitä paskaa" Bit really one of the best things about Finnish I think is that we don't have gender pronouns. We use "hän" or "se" which could mean either a woman or a man. I think that is a great thing!

[kyutnessoverloaded]

Oh dear god! Our psychology teacher has found tumblr... She's showing us a video from @depressingfinland and I can't...

[benni-z]

Picked these up from the net... HOW THE FINNS SAY IT.

1. The Finns aren’t “in a very bad mood”… they are like “a bear shot in the ass” (Kuin perseeseen ammuttu karhu). 2. The Finns aren’t “broke”… they are “open in the ass” (Persaukinen). 3. The Finns aren’t in a “great hurry”… they “run using a head as a third leg” (Juosta pää kolmantena jalkana). 4. The Finns don’t think someone is “crazy”… they doubt “if one has all the Moomins in the valley” (Olla kaikki muumit laaksossa). 5. The Finns don’t use a “computer”… they have a “knowledge machine” (Tietokone). 6. The Finns don’t “get big-headed”… they have “piss coming up to their head” (Nousta kusi päähän). 7. The Finnish children don’t wait for a Santa Claus on Christmas Eve… they wait for a ‘’Christmas buck” (Joulupukki). 8. The Finns don’t ask “how are you?”… they ask “what are you hearing?” (Mitä sinulle kuuluu?) 9. The Finns don’t call remote places “godforsaken”… they state that a place is “behind God’s back” (Jumalan selän takana). 10. The Finns don’t say women are curvy… they say that women “have something to get a hold on” (Olla jotain, josta pitää kiinni). 11. The Finns don’t say “fuck you”… they tell you to “sniff cunt” (Haista vittu). 12. The Finns don’t have fairytales about “dragons”… they tell stories about “salmon snakes” (Lohikäärme). 13. The Finns don’t say someone looks extremely happy… they say one “smiles like a sun in Naantali” (Hymyillä kuin Naantalin aurinko). 14. The Finns don’t say something “vanished into thin air”… they say it “disappeared like a fart in Sahara” (Kadota kuin pieru Saharaan). 15. The Finns don’t say that “as a result of a rush something was implemented poorly”… they say something was “pissed while running” (Juosten kustu). 16. Angry Finns don’t say they will “kill you” …they offer to “take you behind the sauna” (Viedä saunan taakse). 17. The Finns don’t encourage you (or themselves) to “drink more”… they just say that “a drop won’t kill and you can’t drown in a bucket” (Ei tippa tapa eikä ämpäriin huku). 18. The Finns don’t think something is “very heavy”… they think it “weights like a sin” (Painaa kuin synti). 19. The Finns don’t say that “it’s water under the bridge”… they say “it’s snow of the past winter” (Menneen talven lumia). 20. The Finns don’t “bite the dust”…they “kick the emptiness” (Potkaista tyhjää). 

[flutelorelai]

Insipred by depressingfinland's post, here are Slovakia's words for snow:

snow = SNEH

light, powdery snow = PRAŠAN

snow in clumps that falls very peacefully and silently = PÁPERIE

snow that melted and then froze again and created big granules = FIRN

snow ideal for sledging = SANICA

snow created by frozen humidity = SRIEŇ, OSUHEĽ

hoarfrost = INOVAŤ

frost = NÁMRAZA

muddy, very wet snow, usually on the roads = ČĽAPKANICA

snow falling = SNEŽENIE

falling of huge snow clumps = CHUMELICA

falling of snow with strong wind = METELICA, FUJAVICA

falling of snow with rain = PĽUŠŤ

very light snow cover = POCUKROVANÉ

snow cover = PERINA

dune of snow = ZÁVEJ

dune of snow in a shape of crescent or long line = JAZYK

a layer of frozen snow on top of the snow cover = KÔRKA

a layer of ice on the roads = POĽADOVICA

a layer of ice created by freezing rain = ĽADOVICA

freezing cold = MRÁZ

freezing without snow = HOLOMRÁZ

just above 0°C = ODMÄK

[nonsensedotfi]

[toomuchplanningahead]

Finnish small talk at its finest

At a bus stop in Finland when it’s raining so much you’d probably spot Noah’s ark if you kept looking long enough.

A girl with soaking wet clothes comes and asks; “Does number 4 stop here?”

Me: Yeah I think so.

A moment of silence.

Girl: It’s raining a bit. Me: Yeah. I don’t have an umbrella.

End of discussion.

It’s not like Finns don’t like small talk (oh well it is also that) we literally CAN’T. After the really awkward chat with the stranger I’ve been thinking about whether I looked retarded or not when waving my hand in silence as a sign of leaving.

[koyhaongelmia-blog]

Köyhäongelmia.

[saaraserafiina]

[fullmealjacket]

IN FINLAND WE HAVE MANY THINGS

we are very special in finland because we have a 'nimi' for all of them

[tukkaruuhka]

Ah, Tampere-mellakka. 6.12.2013 Nevör forget ♥

[jethroq]

Ihmebantu ep. 1 with English Subtitles

A masterpiece of Finnish dark absurdist comedy.

[nonsensedotfi]

[bblackeyed]

Apparently the Department of Social Services and Health Care in Helsinki, Finland thinks THIS is the appropriate way to educate teenagers about the dangers of the treacherous monster that is the INTERNET. 

If only they had made this ten years ago! If only I’d known better! Now pictures of my belly button have been passed around the world by two animated sharks and my grandmother won’t speak to me. The horror. 

[saaraserafiina]