Expanding your Finnish vocabulary with Gettomasa rap songs

If you like Finnish rap, or if you have kids in Finland, you have probably heard of Gettomasa. 

If you listen to the songs on Spotify, you can usually read the lyrics at the same time. Notice that depending of the source, the spelling might vary as in grindata/graindata or with other loan words from English. 

I have a post about spoken Finnish, but understading rap lyrics might require more specific vocabulary. Urbaani sanakirja is great, and you might also want to check out the grammar of swearing in Finnish. 

The words on the list are from these songs: 

• Muijii stadis
• Silmät
• Shamppanjadieetillä
• Jälkeekään
• Entä sä

Gettomasa Jyväskylässä 12.7.2023.
Kello on viisitoista yli yksitoista, 
ja ulkona on näin valoisaa.

Nouns

1. duuni
2. chanssi
3. hima
4. jengi
5. jäbä
6. kiesi
7. kundi
8. lande
9. leija
10. luuri
11. massi
12. meitsi
13. muija
14. plääni
15. rafla
16. rundi
17. skidi
18. Stadi
19. yläfemma

Verbs

 

1. ballata
2. chillata
3. delata 
4. fiilata
5. grindata
6. heitata
7. koodata
8. repata
9. rokata
10. smoukata
11. tsiigata
12. venata

Adverbial phrases

1. tikissä
2. mintissä
3. messissä

Here are the translations. I hope I got them right. :)

Nouns

1. duuni - work
2. chanssi - a chance
3. hima - home
4. jengi - a gang, people
5. jäbä - a boy, a man
6. kiesi - a car
7. kundi - a boy, a man
8. lande - countryside, or a person from there
9. leija - a boaster, very nice, probably also very expensive (Normally leija is a kite. It can also be a fart, but in rap songs, it probably isn't.) 
10. luuri - a phone
11. massi - money
12. meitsi - me, I
13. muija - a woman, a girl (but not everyone likes this, so be careful if using it. If you want to talk about your girlfriend, here are some options.)
14. plääni - a plan
15. rafla - a bar, a restaurant
16. rundi - a tour, a round
17. skidi - a kid, a child
18. Stadi - Helsinki, Helsinki city center
19. yläfemma - a high five

Verbs 

1. ballata - to spend a lot of money
2. chillata - to chill
3. delata - to die
4. fiilata - to feel, to like, to know the feeling
5. grindata - to work hard
6. heitata - to hate
7. koodata - to message
8. repata - to represent
9. rokata - to rock, to wear something
10. smoukata - to smoke
11. tsiigata - to look
12. venata - to wait

Adverbial phrases

1. tikissä - in good shape
2. mintissä - in mint condition, in good shape (I have no idea which one is better.)
3. messissä - along, with

Read more

• Learning Finnish with music
• Spoken language tips
• Finnish loan words
• Finnish words ending with 'ari' or 'äri'
• My old post about slang words (I wrote it after listening to an interview with Cheek.) 
• Urban dictionary of Finnish
• Etymological dictionary of Finnish
• Verb type 4 

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