9th April is Finnish language day, here are some aesthetic expressions from this small yet beautiful language:
- Sielunmaisema: landscape of the soul: the emotional world, values, memories, and thoughts that shape how a person experiences life
- Kaiho – hopeless longing: an involuntary solitude in which one feels incomleteness and yearns for something unattainable or extremely difficult and tedious to attain.
- Luonnonlapsi – nature’s child: a genuine and sincere person who’s carefree and down to earth, a scatterbrained, someone who doesn’t care about the ways of society. Slightly negative but in an endearing way
More expressions
- Olla hyvällä tuulella— To be on / To have a good wind 🌬: To have a good mood. To be mildly happy.
- siirtyä ajasta ikuisuuteen/iäisyyteen – went from time to eternity: said about someone who has died
- oma maa mansikka, muu maa mustikka 🍓🫐-our land strawberry, other land blueberry: there’s no place like home
sources: @/finnishtogo
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a Polyglot illustrating Scandinavia 
