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11Translation - Finnish-English - sinäpä söpö tyttö olet. miten sä suomea osaat?

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sinäpä söpö tyttö olet. miten sä suomea osaat?
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Submitted by Trash Deluxe
Source language: Finnish

sinäpä söpö tyttö olet.
miten sä suomea osaat?
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american or british english

Title
You're the sweetest girl.
Translation
English

Translated by Bamsse
Target language: English

You're the sweetest girl.
How can you speak Finnish?
Last validated or edited by lilian canale - 7 May 2008 00:27





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25 April 2008 23:18

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
Hi Bamsse

"How come you're speaking finnish?"

By "how come" ...do you mean "why"?
Being a question it should be
...are you..?
Also, Finnish requires capital letter.

25 April 2008 23:44

Bamsse
Number of messages: 33
The original text is written in slang.
To reflect this 'how come' is deliberately chosen instead of just 'why'.
Capital letter in Finnish is of course OK.

25 April 2008 23:58

lilian canale
Number of messages: 14972
OK, then. I just wanted to be sure that it really meant "why".
What about the interrogative form?

28 April 2008 00:19

Tantine
Number of messages: 2747
Hi Bamsse, Hi Lilly

I was just wondering about the word "sweetiest", which seems somewhat strange to me, even for slang.

Maybe "sweetest" would be more "usual"

Bises
Tantine

1 May 2008 14:10

tarinoidenkertoja
Number of messages: 113
it s "How do you speak finnish ?"(almost same as why can you speak finnish?)

2 May 2008 13:01

Maribel
Number of messages: 871
The difficulty here is to convey the meaning of the "-pä" in sinäpä. Some other possiblities for you english-speaking people to consider what would be the best way to express the idea:
(How cute/sweet girl you are)
But you are a cute girl
What a cute girl you are
I don't know it the superlative form conveys the same message, might well be.

As for the second sentence it says how it is possible that you CAN speak Finnish, maybe:
(How come you speak Finnish?)
How did you learn Finnish?

I would define the original as spoken language, not exactly slang.

3 May 2008 10:56

zinope
Number of messages: 3
I think the translation should be: "You sure are a cute girl. How come you know Finnish?"

4 May 2008 19:27

IanMegill2
Number of messages: 1671
sweetest