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Same in Estonian. Minä -> mä is Mina -> Ma (meaning "me") Meie -> Me (meaning "us") Tema -> ta (meaning "him/her") I once did a duolingo course on Finnish a
by askonomm 3y ago
Same in Estonian.
Minä -> mä is Mina -> Ma (meaning "me")
Meie -> Me (meaning "us")
Tema -> ta (meaning "him/her")
I once did a duolingo course on Finnish and was surprised to find how much of it is almost literally the same, both in having almost the same amount of cases (we have 14, Finnish has 15), and that the overall structure is the same, meaning the biggest hurdle for me to learn Finnish is not so much the langauge, but the vocabulary. While a lot of Finnish words are almost identical in Estonian, there's also quite a few that actually mean things in Estonian, but totally different things than in Finnish.
A funny (or not funny?) example is "Raiska pappi", which in Estonian means "Spend/waste money", but in Finnish means "raping priest" or something like that.