Here are some words that are annoyingly similar, especially if you're taking
a certain exam and there is a risk that you will spend all your time talking about a wrong topic. I'll keep adding to this list as I notice more words that might be confusing.
- Aika is time. The genitive of aika is ajan, which is also the first person conjugation of ajaa, to drive.
- Eläin is an animal. Elämä is life.
- Kotitehtävä is homework. Kotityö is a chore such as cleaning or washing the dishes.
- Kylä is a village, but it's also used in the expression käydä kylässä, to visit someone.
- Leikata is to cut. Leikkiä is to play as a child.
- Liha is meat, lihava is fat, lihas is a muscle, and lihaksikas is muscular.
- Liikenne is traffic. Liike is a movement or a store or a shop. Liikunta is sports.
- Luonto is nature. Luento is a lecture. Luonne is a personality, a temperament.
- Menestys is a success. Menetys is a loss.
- Menestyä is to succeed. Menehtyä is to die.
- Myrsky is a strom. Myrkky is poison.
- Ohjelma is a programme. Ongelma is a problem.
- Patient is either a noun potilas or an adjective kärsivällinen.
- Rukata is to fix a little bit. Runkata is to masturbate. In newspapers, rukata is often in the past tense rukkasi, and it really makes you want to read the text twice.
- Valita is to choose. Valittaa is to complain. Välittää is to care or to pass on.
- Varata is to book or to reserve. Varastaa is to steal. Verrata is to compare.
- Viallinen is faulty. Virallinen is official. Vaarallinen is dangerous.
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15 comments:
Minulla on seurava ehdotus: Välittää, Vallita, Valita ja Valitta
Vaikuttaa (to seem/influence/affect) ja vakuuttaa (to assert/convince/reassure)!
Niinpa... tyttöystäväni vielä nauraa kun muistaa minun "olen paholainen" :)
I always have to think about words beginning with 'yksi-' like yksinäinen (lonely), yksityinen (private).
Tästä voi olla apua: http:// randomfinnishlesson.blogspot.fi/2013/05/yksi.html?m=1
I once mixed ongelma with ohjelma!
Kiitos, lisäsin nuo sanat listaan.
Yes, that is a classic.:)
I keep confusing jäädä, jättää and jatkaa.
I always trip over vaille and vielä
Personal favourite,
Tapaan hänet = I'll greet him
Tapan hänet = I'll kill him
Finnish vowel length, a matter of life and death!
and "vaikeuttaa", to make something more difficult! :)
Yes, how could I forget that one from this list! Now it's updated.:)
Myös "välttää"
kuulua and kuulla are common ones that I mix up all the time.
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