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Hi, Liisa. Can you help me? I translated the passage below, but it's not making sense to me. I'll compare what you give me with what I have tried to translate and see where I went wrong. I'm sorry, but I don't have the umlaut to use for Finnish on my computer, so I hope you might be able to assume where the umlauts are supposed to be. If not, please let me know. You could just tell me what the following paragraph says in English, and I'll go back through it in Finnish and figure it all out from there. I have Finnish reference materials that I use, but sometimes it just doesn't translate things well. Here goes:

Sellaiset kurkkupurkit siella oli. Ajattelin, etta ei tasta tule yhtaan mitaan, nyt havettaa, olisi taas pitanyt tarkastaa asiat kymmeneen kertaan. Sitten rupesin katselemaan, millaista jengia tulee paikalle. Ne oli ihan ammattilaisia, toimittajia, keikkajarjestajia ja kaupun edustajia. Tajusin, etta ei tassa olekaan mitaan hataa.

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Thanks, Liisa. That was really helpful. I think "kurkkupurkit" might have something to do with yelling because I found that "kurkku" can also mean "throat" and "purkaa" means "to unload or to discharge," and I'm wondering if that means yelling at someone. I took "kaupun edustajia" to mean business representatives. Just my guess.

Hi! Kurkkupurkit has to mean cucumber cans because there is absolutely no form in wich the word purkaa(to unload or discharge) would be "purkit". Also, it would be then two different fords separately. Kaupan edustaja could be business representatives....but is there a spelling mistake? Kaupun doesn´t really sound like anything to me unless it is a name of some kind.

Thanks, Liisa. Those were just my amateur guesses. You're the expert, here, and I'll go with whatever you think.

Hehe, ok. Just try and see what you will get out of the text.

I m just starting to study finnish lang, and i have one question!
I d love to know what a diffrence between those sintances
-Missä sinä olet työssä
-Missä sinä olet töissä
and
-Missä sinä olet duunissa!
Thanx in advance
Especialy i m interesting in -duunissa-

Tervaiset, Yani:

All three sentences mean the same thing: "Where do you work?"

The last one involving the word "duunissa" is Helsinki slang for the word "work." In this case, the "ssa" ending on the slang word "duuni" means to be "in" work (or at work).

"Duunari" means worker, "duuni" is a job or work, and "jobi" means work also. All three of these are slang words.

Hope this helps!