It's the same in Icelandic, þvottabjörn = wash bear

It's because that "bear" often rinse food under water.

Annamau same in Dutch we say 'wasbeer' wassen = to wash and beer = bear 😂👍🏼

And you knowing Russian is relevant how...?

In German it's the same. Racoon is "Waschbär" - "waschen" is to wash and "Bär" is a bear. Same thing for the peanutbutter. "Erdnussbutter" - "Erde" = jord/maa, "Nuss" = nöt/pähkinä and "Butter" = smör/voi. I am German by the way but I am learning both Swedish and Finnish. :)

Very true.

TheSwedishLad finish is related to Hungarian, they come from Proto-Uralic

She's Estonian, and Finnish - so she probably didn't learn Swedish in school like pretty much all the Finns do. But, Swedish often 'rusts' unused for the Finns, because English is used so overwhelmingly in the international meetings, often with the Swedes as well, because then Finns are closer on the same level, both not speaking their mother tongue. Of course Swedish is pretty close to English, but at least Finns don't have to compete with them in their own language - leaving them automatically underdogs in the situation. If they don't happen to be Swedes of Finland, Finns whose mother tongue is Swedish, about 7% of them. Some Swedish citizens don't even know there is such people in Finland. On the other hand, there are very few Swedes in Sweden who speak Finnish, if their background is not Finnish.

Currently there are quite Finns who dont know Swedish:D

There has always been quite a many of those who can't speak or understand Swedish, especially in inner Finland. And nowadays Swedish is quite unpopular among pupils. It's waist of time, they say. And actually I agree: more reasonable would be learling English and then German, Russian, French, Spanish or Mandarin China etc.

It never helps when a Scanian tries to speak Swedish.

den vackraste dialekten!

Kay C Kommer från en skånings mun, finaste dialekten är nog dalmål eller norrländska.

@@Juutube989 norrländska ❤️

@@livedandletdie my scania speaks gr8 swedish 😡😡😡🧀🧀🧀

english is much simpler language than swedish though

Emmanuel Moore omg no😮 it's so much easier to pronounce Finnish😅

Swedish is not so easy as seems

@@maleena7738 finnish also has like 14 noun cases so i found it to be harder than mandarin chinese. also i find swedish to be very simple outside of the word order

@@tworoyboys208 Finnish actually has even 15 cases😅 but the thing is...once you get those, the whole language makes sense and it pretty logical! (Talking from experience here) I still find Swedish pronounciation pretty hard but the grammar isn't that hard. I just prefer Finnish because there aren't any articles to learn😁

? meno súdi človeka ? čoo :DD

Perkele is an insult(And the God of Thunder (Or fire, depends on the version) in Finnish Mythology) 😂.

Actually Finnish has more vowels in words than most languages.

annihilationHaven I mean my hair is brown and I'm from Estonia, Sweden, and turkey

Sometimes Finnish sounds like Japanese... It's a really cute language!

@@abielticas1693 I heard that from a lot of people, but I've never get such an impress. (I'm completely foreign to these languages.) But, sometimes every languages sounds Japanese to me; like Italian, Spanish sometimes even French, Georgian and Persian.

He he

Same thing

That's because blood is an old word in the language family. A sentence that all speakers of Uralic languages find familiar: fish swims alive under waters. In Finnish: kala uiskelee elävänä vesien alla. Other words Finns and Hungarians both still use that are from the same Uralic root are for example: käsi (hand), vaski (copper, although in Hungarian means now iron), nuoli (arrow), voi (butter), niellä (swallow), mennä (go), joki (river), jää (ice), talvi (winter), löyly (soul), maksa (liver).

@@Aurinkohirvi in Hungarian this would be: a halak élve (elevenen) úsznak a víz alatt.

*Kyllä, suomea on hyvin vaikea oppia. (suomalaista = "to do to a finnish person" so the sentence was like "It's really hard to learn a finnish person" so the context is totally different. Google translate has not yet mastered finnish at all.) :D

Yes ofcourse

*rikssvenska

*FÅR EJ ÖVERTACKAS*

zlatantillifk Han prata med stockholm accent...different from skaraborg

And it's her birthday today!

Happy birthday Merkku, where ever you are:) Cool channel, sub.

loool, funny. You now nothing about languages. This similarity is so small that it's easier to learn Finnish because words moved from Swedish to Finnish.

@@Rolando95 Including grammar and pronunciation.

@@Rolando95 Only about 4% of Finnish vocabulary is of Swedish origin. And most of those words aren't very common.

@@Rolando95 words got nothing to do with how languages are related. Grammar has.

@@animacs1 Find a relation between Hindi and Swedish grammar!!!

ha ha

It's not, Swedish is much easier to learn for a native Greek speaker. They're related (though not very closely) and their grammar is more similar.

by the way.... swedish and german have the same translation. tvättbjörn means Waschbär. tvätt is wasch(en) and björn means Bär.

No vittu kai ny ku sä oot syntyny Suomes

Triirex pelaa reading it's actually easier for me it than swedish because you almost always pronounce the words the way they're written

Alma Báez if u read u can speak almost good finnis

Susi Gamer think again :)

There's a huge difference between learning an extremely useful global language (English) or choosing to learn a major language that interests you (German/Spanish/Russian) and being forced to learn a language that only 0.13% of the World understands (Swedish). And yes, Finnish is even more insignificant than Swedish and it's a good thing that Swedes aren't forced to learn Finnish.

Yea, but most people never once need Swedish outside school. It's only really spoken in coastal towns, go even little bit inland and you wont hear a word in Swedish ever. And if you don't use language, you forget it very quickly. I did quite okay in Swedish in primary school, but nowadays I couldn't hold a conversation in Swedish to save my life, and I'm only 26 right now, so it's not like I haven't spoken Swedish in decades. On my engineering studies I managed to pass the Swedish courses very very barely, and that little I knew in those courses I've mostly forgotten also. English on the other hand I use almost daily, so I can do quite okay with it. I do have very heavy accent though, since I almost never speak it out loud, I only write and read.

Yup!

Pontus Hermesgård jag vet inte det finns ett ord. Konstig

Men vad är ordet?

Why that sentence? Everything is wrong in it. Finland was never a "colony" but an integral part of Sweden. The second largest and important "city" of Sweden was Turku/Åbo. The Swedish time in Finland lasted until 1809.

Kymäätaa lynkaa muusaa on min

cuz maybe they are both germanic languages lol??

@@lemonlemonade9497 yes. And? Finnish and Hungarian are relatives (the closest), still doesn't sound similar. At all.

@@animacs1 Hungarian isn't the closest relative to Finnish. Karelian, Estonian and Vepsian are the closest relatives to Finnish and they do sound familiar.

What? It would be a shame if she spoke fluent Swedish. Speaking Swedish is a shame, you anti-Finnish twat.

shame? as a finn im proud of her. most of us are bored of this swedish shit! why do we have to learn their language but why dont they also elarn our language?? all of us finnish students are so tired of this. i hate the swedish language so much. i dont care that i get bad grades on that. We should learn other finno-ugric languages instead of swedish.. I'd gladly learn Saami, Estonian, Karelian, Vepsian but never swedish