Quote: Do you mean to tell me that you actually know what the word maahanmuuttoviranomaisena means? My Gawd, I don't think there is a Finnish word with less than 15 letters!
maahanmuuttoviranomaisena: means 'as the immigrant official'. It's a compound word, Finns thrive on them! Maahanmuuttaja: 'to-the-country-mover', immigrant. 'Viranomainen' - 'holder of the office' - official. The fact that the word ends in -na means it is one of those damn 15 grammatical cases and I don't remember the name, don't feel like looking it up - anyway, it means 'acting as'. So if you wanted to look the word up in a dictionary to see if I was right, you'd have to look it up as 'maahanmuuttoviranomainen'.
Oh, 'paluumuuttovalmennukseen' means 'To the preparation for repatrification'.
There are lots of Finnish words with less than 15 letters, but that's were the real fun comes in...
You get words like 'matto' (rug) vs 'mato' (worm) and 'tiili' (brick) 'tilli'(dill) 'tili' (account).
Ready for more?? Those 15 grammatical cases? In order to add them to words, often you have to know how to change the stem. So...'katu' (street) becomes 'kadulla' (on the street) 'kadussa' (in the street, looks pretty silly ) but 'katuun' (to the street 'in it's streetness') 'katulle' (to the street)...have to admit, I'm not sure if it's 'katuna' or 'kaduna' ('acting as the street') I don't think many Finns would, H might. There are, of course, different sets of words that change in different ways.
Both words you chose are a bit 'difficult'. 'Viranomainen' (official): viranomaiseen (to the official), viranomaisella (at the official) etc. 'Valmennus' (preparation): valmennukseen (to the preparation) valmennuksena (as the preparation).
Ask me about numbers sometimes...compound words, each section changes when you add a grammatical suffix...
Ain't making any of this up either! That's still only half the fun...it is a very 'logical' language though (if you figure out the logic ) There really aren't any 'exceptions'. It's also very phonetic, each letter only makes one sound, meaning my 4.5yr old twins who are now 'reading' (at the sounding out phase) could read those words too, if they could sit still long enough .
If you figure out the language, you sort of get an insight to the Finnish mind...
Oh, oops, of course I meant 40�F. That's what you get for trying to post at 1am.
