Hangover.

Good food when it happends: cola, beer. Sometimes pizza, scrambled eggs, hamburger or other fat stuff. Pickles.

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Omena = Apple

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Apple • Omena

aamiainen = breakfast
illallinen = dinner
You can't live without them, you have to eat. Of course there are some exceptions.

Kahvi ja pulla = 1€

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Aamiainen • illallinen

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Pankki = Bank

Original Finnish language didn't have consonants B, G. They are reserved mostly for the loan words, but even the foreign words that were adopted at ancient were usually adapted to Finnish phonology. Thus Pankki for Bank.

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This means time in the basic form, but you will never see it like this, except when you say time is money: aika on rahaa. It also means "quite" and it is a big chance to have this meaning when you see it.

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Kastike = Sauce

Like in Mango ja Justo Kastike - Mango and Cheese sauce we find lurking in Juvenes student restaurants, praying on unsuspecting foreigners.

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Rautatieasema = Railwaystation.
This work is made by 3 different words which can translate quite good the whole meaning:
rauta = iron
tie = way
asema = station

So we find out that the exact translation is IronWayStation.
Wake up and get out of the train... we have arrived!!!

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Kaikki = ALL
Like musketeers say: kaikki yhden ja yksi kaikkien puolesta (all for one and one for all). Of course, they talk about Nokia phones. Without Nokia, Finland wouldn't be such famous country.

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Kippis is a very useful word in Finland. It is the first pub-lesson you get. It's what you say when putting glasses together, but not eye glasses.

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Maustamaton = Natural

Beware of Yogurt that has no maustamaton written on it. It might harbor unexpected surprises. Also, avoid yogurt with 0.1% fat. It is just white water not fit for consumption by our barbaric bodies.

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maustamaton • natural • yogurt