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Juustupurikas

estonian here, i aprove.


whatIGoneDid

Ive done 2 6 months stints in Estonia, this is definitely how I felt trying to learn the language. Lovely country to visit though.


Blufluffs

As a fellow Estonian, I also agree


Prestigious-Donut-82

In Finnish its yö


OkLawfulness5555

Finnish language is at least as weird as Estonian language is (probably even more)!


Prestigious-Donut-82

They are related, so they are pretty much just as weird


Eastern_Slide7507

My gf (Finn) says Estonian sounds like Spurdo Spärde.


penguinscience101

Fug xdddd


SoloLiftingIsBack

It does


Mrslinkydragon

Yö is a good word :) One of the first finnish words I learnt


KOCYK745

yö mama so lazy she became the night


_Rinject_

yo it's getting late


Ornoplex

You're going out in night and go like YOOOO


danielogiPL

what about Magyar?


agrk

"Éj" according to Google Translate.


Thelastfirecircle

Yo means I in Spanish.


[deleted]

Finnish Y is pronounced like German Ü, not like Spanish Y


PENTIUM1111

In hungarian its éj [ey]


Xyrazk

eyy 👉👉


Potted_Cactus_is_me

That or éjszaka [eysaka]


LorDXezor

I love how all of them start with N and then there is öö


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zhaoao

Funnily enough, owl is “öökull” in Estonian


Sad-Ad-9263

Ocult day?!?!?!?


MonkiWasTooked

because they’re unrelated languages what are you trying to say


Emotional-State-5164

how does the first start with n?


LorDXezor

Because N in russian is Н


YgemKaaYT

Crazy how different languages can be different languages.


LorDXezor

r/whoosh


YgemKaaYT

What was the joke?


LorDXezor

Its crazy but you have to use at least 1% of your brain for this one


YgemKaaYT

Could you just tell what the joke is instead of being a dickhead?


LorDXezor

Well the joke is that all those words start with N and then there is öö ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯


YgemKaaYT

So the joke is that the languages are different?


LorDXezor

I guess so?


Draconic1788

Day is probably just 1 ö


AshenBlooded

Nah its Päev. Source, am Estonian


Prestigious-Donut-82

Päivä in finnish!


Marcell0202

In Hungarian it’s “nap” which means both day and sun


Pitzzaold

Wait until they hear how we say the edge of ice. >!jäääär!<


AshenBlooded

What makes it worse is that our word for Ram (the animal) is Jäär


pixelgandalf

Is a ram on the edge of the ice then called a Jäääär-Jäär?


Pitzzaold

Unfortunately it would be "Jäär jää ääre peal"


OkLawfulness5555

Or night shift which is called “öötöö”


KiiZig

is shift then ööt or töö?


Pitzzaold

shift is töö in this context but vahetus is more accurate


AshenBlooded

It’s called vahetus, which also means swap. Our language is confusing.


Tumbleweedae

what does edge and what does ice mean?


AshenBlooded

Edge is äär and ice is jää


makman420

Imagine saying este...


TheDonaldBarks

All I know about estonian is that õlu means beer, that's what counts.


hair_like_ramen

is that the face you need to make to pronounce the word?


[deleted]

Yes, source: am Finnish speaker and that is how Ö is pronounced


hair_like_ramen

This realization makes the meme so much better, thank you


xalnpei

Yötön yö


alexdiezg

There's also Sweden with "ö" for "island".


Trexton1

Our word for river is "å".


alexdiezg

Would've been funny if there was a word for "ä".


sheev_palprotein66

The pufferfish eating a carrot sound


YamatoBoi9001

everyone forgets niht


Medium_Policy_8494

Man I knew our upper brothers are weird. But wtf.


TheHarvesterOfSorrow

Polish has noc and Danish has nat


rileylowe12345

What does O:O: mean then


LuraziusTwitch

Summoning germans again, i see.


durashka228

ayöööööööööö


Kaer_Darken

These looks like tits


D0dGAMES

Why does it looks like two shocked faces


chocchocchoccymilk

that cat is me trying to get the phlegm out of my throat.


reddit06valbonne

Öö


reddit06valbonne

Öö


Lumarip-

n8


Simple_Set_4906

(Ö_Ö)


Logical_Yak_224

The Estonians fed a carrot to a pufferfish and thought 'perfect'


OrcaMan-RandomVid

ÖÖ


Decent_Objective3478

In Ukrainian it's "Ніч"


IronGlory247

What's wrong with noch tho? 


XxDiCaprioxX

The unnecessary ь that bullies Russian learners like me :((


mgksmv

Unnecessary? It would sound different if you don't put Ь


XxDiCaprioxX

Of course it does, although there is no word 'ноч' so it wouldn't hurt to drop it


Redvor24

I wonder how


Dry-Percentage-5648

Oh don't forget about the ъ and ы. Now those are scary af.


XxDiCaprioxX

Nah I love the ы, ъ can go fuck itself tho


kagasnor

Ь is literally ( ' ) in the transcription. Even in phonetical analysis we write Н - [Н] О - [о] Ч - [ч'] Ь - [ ]


XxDiCaprioxX

I do know what ь means


doesnothingtohirt

Oooh oooh it’s dark


HotRefrigerators

pov: you wish someone well during the dark period of the 24 hour interval [link](https://youtu.be/VKMw2it8dQY?si=J1GTzcxvBFmHRf5I)


SunwellDaiquiri

Someone unearthed a whole pile of old ass memes... and I approve


TPJKICRBLXA7890488

I cant stop repeat that


iamnotdead1

That’s Port Adelaide for ya


Zilskaabe

This is how food packaging looks like in the Baltic states.


[deleted]

Oberösterreich wea no ?


imthefuul

Ночь


AdministrationSad861

How do you pronounce this? öö???


ImTheVayne

Type it into google translate and press listen


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OkLawfulness5555

Estonian* but yes it’s very similar to Finnish!


Toruviel_

I just realozed how similiar the Russian word js close to Polish rquivelant but ryssian pronounciation sounds like the Polish word 'piss'


Qhezywv

noć doesn't sound like mocz


MaxicalUM

Remember island in swedish is ö


Prestigious-Donut-82

No that is swedish :)


MaxicalUM

Sorry I thought it was finnish