Americans React to 10 Very Finnish Ways to Say "I CAN'T"

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• MA

  @mana-oakmg · 7 months ago

  If you use that general "en voi", everyone will notice that you didn't specify why.😄

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• HE

  @herecomesthesun21 · 7 months ago (edited)

  We definitely use all those words very actively in everyday language. Most of them can be used in more official settings, too, depending on the situation. To just say "en voi" would be weird in many cases.

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• _V

  @_vanilful · 7 months ago

  "En kestä" can also be used positively, like "en kestä, se on niin söpö" so in English, "I can't, it's so cute"

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• EM

  @emma-kati · 7 months ago (edited)

  Saying “En voi” without elaborating makes you sound like you have something to hide, like the reason you don’t wanna tell why you can’t do this thing is something questionable 😅

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• HE

  @hepapu · 7 months ago (edited)

  I rarely use "en voi" it's too vague. Everything else is "everyday" finnish.

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• KP

  @kpt002 · 7 months ago

  The guy in the video really understands the Finnish language with its nuances and yes, we do use all of those ways to say "I can't" in our daily interactions. 😊

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• IL

  @ilpoomatili9549 · 7 months ago

  Saying "en voi" almost always results in getting a blunt "why" and being forced to elaborate anyway

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• ZA

  @Zami80 · 7 months ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ip6_6GSB6VQ&amp;t=366">06:06</a> Great that you noticed that! &quot;Kokata&quot; means &quot;to cook&quot;, and &quot;laittaa ruokaa&quot; means &quot;to make food&quot;. Edit: we definately use all of those different words of &quot;can&apos;t&quot; in some form, and we might have local slang words for them too.

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• JU

  @juhmo3496 · 7 months ago

  It&apos;s crazy that when I speak English, I always say &quot;can&apos;t&quot; in every one of these examples when I translate it in my head, and I&apos;ve never even thought about it.

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• HA

  @haisuli1458 · 7 months ago

  Those are everyday terms to say i cant. Used all the time😊

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• J3

  @j3mixa · 7 months ago

  If you don&apos;t want to come to Finland in winter, or in the busiest summer months, then August could be a great choice. Schools start around 10th of August which means that the bulk of locals are done with vacationing. There&apos;re some European travellers around, but it&apos;s still a lot less busy than June and July. In August you&apos;ll still most likely have good summer weather and it&apos;s the peak season for locally grown food, so there&apos;re plenty of fresh food available. <br><br>In August you can also go and eat berries straight from the forrest yourself if you do any nature activities, like just walking in a forest close to cities. Berries are absolutely everywhere, especially bilberries (many falsely call them blueberries), so it&apos;s easy to find some if you just want to have a snack and are not looking for picking them in bulk. Mosquitoes are also mostly gone at that point, so it&apos;s much more pleasant to spend time in nature, or in a cabin somewhere. And natural waters are still relatively warm to swim in.

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• TY

  @tyttiMK · 7 months ago

  In some dialects &quot;en kehtaa&quot; also means that &quot;I can&apos;t be bothered&quot; to do something, that I am just too lazy to do it. I can&apos;t be bothered to come up with an example of that because I have been living in an area where the people won&apos;t understand that meaning, so I haven&apos;t been using it for a couple of decades.

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