Real spoken Finnish for Good News, Bad News, with the written form (kirjakieli) beside every line, word-by-word notes and audio on every sentence. Free to read.
Reacting: voi ei, harmi, kyl se siitä
How Finns react to news: 'voi ei' = oh no, 'harmi' = what a shame, 'onneks' = luckily. And when things go wrong, the national motto: 'kyl se siitä' = it'll be alright, and 'ei voi mitään' = nothing to be done. Say these right and you'll sound like you grew up here.
Voi ei, mitä tapahtu? = Oh no, what happened?
Kyl se siitä. = It'll be alright.
Hienoo, onnee vaan! = Great, congrats!
Voi ei, mitä tapahtu?
Oh no, what happened?
Written Finnish: Voi ei, mitä tapahtui?
voi
oh - 'voi ei' = oh no
ei
no
mitä
what
tapahtu
happened - spoken 'tapahtui'
Harmi, ettet päässy mukaan.
Shame you couldn't come along.
Written Finnish: Harmi, ettet päässyt mukaan.
harmi
a shame / a pity
ettet
that you didn't - 'että' + 'et' fused
päässy
made it - spoken 'päässyt'
mukaan
along
Onneks kaikki meni hyvin.
Luckily everything went well.
Written Finnish: Onneksi kaikki meni hyvin.
onneks
luckily - spoken 'onneksi'
kaikki
everything
meni
went - from 'mennä'
hyvin
well
Kyl se siitä.
It'll be alright.
Written Finnish: Kyllä se siitä.
kyl
surely - spoken 'kyllä'
se
it
siitä
from that - the whole idiom means 'it'll sort itself out'
Ei voi mitään.
Nothing to be done.
Written Finnish: Ei voi mitään.
ei
not
voi
can
mitään
anything - the shrug that ends a complaint
No, semmosta sattuu.
Well, stuff like that happens.
Written Finnish: No, sellaista sattuu.
no
well
semmosta
that kind of thing - spoken 'sellaista'
sattuu
happens - from 'sattua'
Mä oon tosi pahoillani sun puolesta.
I'm really sorry for you.
Written Finnish: Minä olen tosi pahoillani sinun puolestasi.