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Does anyone know Finnish?

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Don't ask me why, I just need to know a translation. I've been to all sorts of sites, and these certain words won't come up, which leads me to believe they aren't mainstream words but I do know they are Finnish. These are the words I can't find:
tommosta
kieltä
käytäkkään
Can anyone help? This is driving me crazy!
Andi
"Yes it's windy. There are ripples on the pond." weid14

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Kieltä - probably 'language'. I gather this based on something that was translated to Swedish and then translated to English (by me, not a fluent Swedish speaker). Backed up by some Finnish programmers referring to the 'C-kielta.' In that case, kielta is used to refer to a programming/computer language.
Tommosta - Possibly 'problems' or 'troubles.' Again lots of programming references on the web, used in what appear to be bug reports and the like. 'ostaa' appears to be a fairly common word ending.
Käytäkkään is a tough one. It is probably a compond work. Käyttää, the likely first part, means 'employ, use, make use of.' Kaan, used as a postfix, seems to negate the beginning, like the English 'un' prefix. So my guess is 'unusable.'
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Brian

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Tommosta: that kind of
Kieltä: tongue, language
Käytäkkään: not use or something like that.
as a sentence it makes more sense if you add couple words
like: Ei tommosta kieltä käytäkkään kukaan.
roughly: "Nobody uses that kind of language" or something
like that........

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I'm a quarter Finnish.
People think it's funny to say, "Really? When will you be all-the-way Finnish?"
My nanny, married to my grandpa, a Finn, for a billion years, has a coffee cup that I want: "You can always tell a Finn, but you can't tell him much."
I'm proud of my Finnish heritage! But I have no idea what those weird-ass words mean, Andrea.
The door is open
We are way the fuck up here
Might as well get out.
~ FallingMarc

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The words (expect "kieltä") are not textbook-Finnish - not exactly slang words either but more like spoken language written down.
tommosta: That kind of, textbook form would be "tuonlaista, tuonlainen"
kieltä: language, tongue - base form (is this the right term, my vocalbulary is rather limited about grammar-terms) is "kieli".
käytäkään: does not use, textbook form would be "ei käytä".
as Jussi mentioned in previous posts, the sentence you are looking at probably goes something like (if the words are from the same sentence at all) "Eihän tommosta kieltä käytäkään kukaan" which is "No one uses that kind of language".
Clearly those are take from some kind of message board, because eihän tommosta kieltä käytäkään kukaan in "official" text. :)
-Kari, Finn.

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