"laundryboy" and a Finnish lesson… pyykkipoika ja suomea ulkomaalaisille + avuntarve: miten selität englanniksi kuinka PYYKKIPOIKA lausutaan? auta!

Ballerina Girl said…
the first is a clothes pin right? the second??knowing you it is probably something like a grape…or maybe a piece of fabric?

Yes! Pin for clothes, clothes peg, clothespin
Fabric – it’s a small carpet!

mythopolis said…
I think clothespin, too…2nd one: blue eyes crying in the rain

Yes! clothespin! oh, Mytho that’s beautiful: blue eyes crying in the rain!
But not correct, sorry.
Hannele said…
Oletko mattosi kanssa leikkinyt.. Klädnypa.

Olenpa hyvinkin! Hienoa Hannele!

Yaelian said…
Ensimmäinen tietty puinen pyykkipoika;tuollaisia löytyy minultakin ,mutta tuo toinen…ei harmainta aavistustakaan.

Jep! pyykkipoika. Harmaata löytyi – pikkuisesta matosta!

Rita said…
A clothes pin – that’s easy, but the second object is not so easy… A reflection of… fabric? A garment? Olisiko heijastuneena jotain kangasta?

Yep, clothespin. Toinen. Kangasta kyllä mutta mikä olikaan esine? Pikkuinen matto!

NicoleB said…
The first one got Ided, the second one,…, a scale? 🙂
Nicole, you’re really funny! A scale – the best guess! 🙂

lisaschaos said…
Clothes pin and a coaster?

Yep and could be! We have a bigger carpet as a tablecloth.

Sirokko said…
Poika ja sen pyykki, vielä vedessä.

Ihanasti arvattu muttei ollut matto vedessä…ihan kuivana vaan…
Mutta kun sen noin sanot kyllä se näyttäisi vedessä olevan…

And now. Finnish lesson. A clothespin in Finnish

PYYKKIPOIKA. How do you say that? hm…
P is like in Pain
YY is long like…short is like ‘mYth’ but yy…

Hey, now I need H E L P!
Rita or somebody – how to explain
how ‘pyykkipoika’ is pronounced?
PYYK-KI-POI-KA. Anybody?

PYYKKI = laundry, wash
POIKA= a boy
‘laundry boy’, oh, how funny is that!?

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  1. NICOLE; me neither! Specially if I try to explain things in my poor English…argh!MYTHO; i’m sorry but this is not a right place to ask that sort of questions…and I don’t even know what you’re talking about…hm..

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  4. okay guys…this is my problem…i get these great ideas – a Finnish lesson! And my own grammar is bad, i can’t teach anybody…okay a little bitI WRITE A NEW POST ABOUT BEAUTIFUL FINNISH LANGUAGE…coming today…soon!

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  6. Wow! So you’re in Egypt. Interesting video from the two hotels you stayed at when you had first arrived.I love to see how words are translated into another language too!Thanks for coming by my blog:)

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  7. Are there long vowels and short vowels in Finnish?For instance, in English, “to bathe in the bay” the letter “a” is a long vowel…and “to laugh in the bath”, “a” is a short vowel….

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  8. ok..let me use my knowledge of language and see if this is right?!P=painyy= like the i sound in pie?kki- like key?poi-rhymes with koi?ka-just like it sounds? short a at the end like in at?just trying! have a great weekend!BG

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  11. Pyykkipojan ääntäminen – Riippuu siitä minkäkieliselle lähdet sitä opettamaan. Y-äänne löytyy mm. ranskasta ja saksasta mutta ei italiasta eikä englannista.ÜberLe menu

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