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The 14 Dirtiest Finnish Expressions (and How to Not Use Them)

Finland Languages
by Veera Papinoja Sep 7, 2015

1. The Finns don’t say that someone is “pedantic”… they say they “fuck a comma” (nussia pilkkua).

2. The Finns don’t say it “rains cats and dogs”… they say, “it’s pouring from Esteri’s ass” (sataa kuin Esterin perseestä).

3. The Finns don’t say someone is “drunk”… they say they “threw asses on their shoulders” (perseet olalla).

4. The Finns don’t say someone is “ugly”… they say they “look like a predatory birds ass” (naama kuin petolinnun perse).

5. The Finns don’t say someone “looks unpleased”…they say they their “face is like an elephant’s cunt” (naama norsun vitulla).

6. The Finns don’t say someone is “full of themselves”… they say they “have piss going to their head” (kusi noussut päähän).

7. The Finns don’t say “let’s go”… they say “let’s go cows, the bull has a boner” (let’s go lehmät, sonnilla seisoo).

8. The Finns don’t say something “disappeared without trace”… they say it “vanished like a fart in Sahara” (kadota kuin pieru Saharaan).

9. The Finns don’t heal the flu with medicine… they say it “heals by fucking” (nuha lähtee nussimalla).

10. The Finns don’t say “fuck” when something goes wrong… they say “the summer of cunts” (vittujen kevät).

11. The Finns don’t say something “fits well”… they say it “fits like a fist in the eye” (sopii kuin nyrkki silmään).

12. The Finns don’t “get diarrhoea”… they “have shit flying out of their ass like flocks of sparrows” (paska lentää kuin varpusparvi).

13. The Finns don’t say someone is “cranky”… they say they are “like a bear shot in the ass” (kuin perseeseen ammuttu karhu).

14. The Finns don’t say someone is “scared”… they say they “have piss in their sock” (kusi sukassa).

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