Thursday, June 18, 2015

Sinä ja minä, you and I

Learn a bit Finnish:

Minä : I
The word for I in Finnish is minä. 
Mi- pronounced like me, nä, pronounced like na in nap

Ja : and
The word for and in Finnish is ja
Ja is pronounced like ya in yard

So the name of this cartoon book:
Veera ja minä means Veera and I. 

In Finnish, I love you is very easy: it's
Minä rakastan sinua

I'll introduce some more books: this one is about a Swedish football player :
Minä, Zlatan Ibrahimovic ,
I, Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Next let's learn the verb to be, olla:
Olla : to be 
Just like in English, there are different forms of it. For 'I' the form is olen
I am : minä olen

The name of this book about the youngest ever Nobel prize laureate.
 Minä olen Malala, is then translated as I am Malala

There is apparently even a magazine called
Minä olen , which just means I am.

The name of the book,
Minä, adoptoitu, might be harder to understand: it's written by a woman who was adopted as a child, and the name of the book is I, adopted


Minä olen pomo: I am the boss

The next word we will learn is
Sinä : you
The word sinä, is only used when speaking to one person. For when you address several people, there is another word.

This 80's song by the popular Finnish band Dingo, is called:
Sinä ja minä
Which means you and I 




Then there is this hair salon with the same name:
Hiussalonki sinä ja minä, hair salon you and I 

Animalia, a Finnish Animal protection organization made this poster which says:
Minä en voi elää ilman turkkia - sinä voit, which means: I can not live without fur - you can

The verb olla - to be, has a form for the pronoun you, sinä, as well: olet
Sinä olet : you are

There is also this nice blog , with the name : Sinä olet kaunis, which means, you are beautiful

And here's a song by the Finnish singer, Juha Tapio. The name of the song is 
Minä olen, sinä olet, which you should by now be able to translate yourself.



And here are all the words:

Ja : and
Minä : I
Sinä : you (singular)
Olla : to be
Minä olen : I am
Sinä olet : you are








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