Finnish Line

Posted in Language by Greg Ross on July 8th, 2009

On your next trip to Finland, you may encounter someone named Kokko who is trying to contain a bonfire. In that case you may want to tell him, “Kokko, gather up the whole bonfire. The whole bonfire? The whole bonfire, Kokko, gather up!”

In Finnish that’s easier than you think:

“Kokko, kokoa koko kokko kokoon. Koko kokkoko? Koko kokko, Kokko, kokoa kokoon!”

(Thanks, Jani.)

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