#I'd love to know how one pretends to be Finnish successfully without getting caught because of their language skills

[because-its-eurovision]

this might be a weird ask, but just bare with me. so i was active on tumblr like 8 years ago (if not more) and i remember a girl who pretended to be finnish for some weird reason? i remember she often signed herself as hiinä? what does that word even mean? is it like slang because i only found the expression hiinä ja hiinä which I have no idea what it means eheeeeee thank you

:DDD

It's slang/dialect, hiinä is a way of saying siinä (there). Hiinä in itself doesn't mean anything, but I remember my parents using hiinä ja hiinä a lot (I'm originally from Ostrobothnia, so it might be a dialect thing).

To put in context, siinä ja siinä (hiinä ja hiinä) translates literally as there and there and can be used when you're wondering whether something is going to happen soon and you need to just wait and see.

Looking out of the window, seeing dark clouds: "Se on siinä ja siinä alkaako pian sataa" "It's there and there if it's going to rain soon" Stuff is running low but you still need some: "Riittääkö se?" "Se on siinä ja siinä" "Is that going to be enough" "It's there and there"

I hope this helped! :)

#idk maybe they found the word and thought is was cool and didn't check out the origin #I'd love to know how one pretends to be Finnish successfully without getting caught because of their language skills #this was a refreshing ask #thank you! <3 #asks