Have you ever come across this word? Did you look it up in the dictionary and could not find it? Well, I came across it and it is not listed in any dictionary. And now that I know what it means, I hear it all the time around (I am sure I heard it also before, I was just ignoring it).
And it means (I won't keep you waiting any longer), well, it means: maybe. Same as ehkä, kenties, kukaties.
People use so many "unofficial" words in their spoken language. I will post them here when I encounter new ones.
Meanwhile, just came to my mind, here are the "spoken" or "shortened" variants for the numbers:
yksi = y
kaksi = ka
kolme = ko
neljä = ne
viisi = vi
kuusi = ku
seitsemän = seiska, seittemän
kahdeksan = kasi, kaheksan
yhdeksän = ysi, yheksän
kymmenen = kymppi
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Vissiin
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The word is 'vissiin'. I think it comes from the Swedish 'visst', which means something like surely, probably, reportedly.
Hi!
Your language is fiendishly difficult, did you know that?
I had a friend many years ago who in the 1st year of university Voluntarily did an entire year of Finnish... because there was a girl he fancied in the class.
He said never again it is a language constructed by the Devil!!
yksi: yy
kaksi: kaa
kolme: koo
neljä: nee
viisi: vii
kuusi: kuu
seitsemän: sei, seiska
kahdeksan: kasi
yhdeksän: ysi
kymmenen: kymppi
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