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left - vasen right - oikea

I write with my left hand. Kirjoitan vasemmalla kädellä.

Turn left at the corner. Käänny kulmasta vasemmalle.

Do I sit on their right? Istunko hänen oikealla puolellaan?

I realize posting finglish twice a week is flooding the feed. thinking of moving it. this is why I said 'testing'.

Bonus: unlike many languages, Finnish has names for eight points of the compass instead of four. So between cardinal directions (pääilmansuunnat) we call ordinal directions (väli-ilmansuunnat) NE, SE, SW & NW by their very own words.

'Ilma' means 'air' and 'suunta' is 'direction', so literally these are called 'air/wind directions', or 'directions of (the) air'

Korttipakka

🃏 (peli)kortti/kortit

A  ässä/ässät J  jätkä/jätkät Q  kuningatar/kuningattaret / akka/akat K  kuningas/kuninkaat

🃏 jokeri/jokerit

♦️ ruutu/ruudut ♣️ risti/ristit ♥️ hertta/hertat ♠️ pata/padat

🔴 punainen/punaiset ⚫ musta/mustat

Pronouns 101

Finnish personal- & demonstrative pronouns Subject on the left, possessive on the right

English personal pronouns (Reflexive pronouns are a whole thing. More on that later..)

Idk what type of pronoun 'it' is, officially, but it felt natural to include here

English demonstrative pronouns. Nice and simple

I'm no expert on linguistic terms. I'm just here as a bilingual, introducing people to Finnish due to popular demand. Please don't butcher me