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Päivän sana - kuusi (six, a spruce, your moon)
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nocturne slrpnk.net nocturne@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-06-13
(edited) Quote

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkuːsi/, [ˈkuːs̠i]
  • Rhymes: -uːsi
  • Syllabification(key): kuu‧si
  • Hyphenation(key): kuu‧si

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *kuuci (compare Estoniankuus), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *kutte (compare Erzya кото (koto), Northern Khanty хәт (hət), Northern Mansi хо̄т (hōt), Hungarian hat).

Numeral

kuusi

  1. six

kuusi kuusta joulukuussa ― six spruce trees in December

etymology 2

From Proto-Finnic *kuusi (compare Estoniankuusk), from Proto-Uralic *kowse (compare Northern Sami guossa, Erzya куз (kuz), Eastern Mari кож (kož), Udmurt кыз (kyz), Tundra Nenets хады (xadi)).

Noun

kuusi

  1. spruce (any tree in the genus Picea)Kuusi on valtapuulaji noin kolmasosassa Suomen metsiä.Spruce is the dominating tree in about one third of Finnish forests.
  2. Norway spruce, Picea abies
  3. spruce (wood of spruce)Perinteisesti puulattiat tehtiin kuusesta.Traditionally the wooden floors were made of spruce.

Etymology 3

Noun

kuusi

  1. inflection of kuu:
  2. second-person singular possessive form of nominative/genitive singular
  3. second-person singular possessive form of nominative/accusative plural

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nocturne slrpnk.net nocturne@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-06-13
#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

I had this in my Finnish lessons 3 years ago, very fitting.
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Tuuktuuk piefed.europe.pub Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub
Joined: 2025-08-31
#3 · (edited) Quote Reply

Kuusi palaa.

Translation 1

Your moon is on fire

Translation 2

Your moon returns

Translation 3

...piece(acc.) of your moon

Translation 4

Six are on fire

translation 5

Six return

Translation 6

Six pieces

Translation 7

The spruce is on fire

Translation 8

The spruce returns

Translation 9

Minä syön kokonaista kakkua, kuusi palaa kakusta = I am eating a whole cake, the spruce is eating a piece of a cake
(But since that needs a sentence around it even more than the "piece of your moon" does, this had to be left as last one)
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nocturne slrpnk.net nocturne@slrpnk.net
Joined: 2025-06-13
#4 · Quote Reply
Tuuktuuk wrote:
Kuusi palaa. ::: spoiler Translation 1 Your moon is on fire ::: ::: spoiler Translation 2 Your moon returns ::: ::: spoiler Translation 3 ...piece(acc.) of your moon ::: ::: spoiler Translation 4 Six are on fire ::: ::: spoiler translation 5 Six return ::: ::: spoiler Translation 6 Six pieces ::: ::: spoiler Translation 7 The spruce is on fire ::: ::: spoiler Translation 8 The spruce returns ::...

Pala will be coming in the next couple days.
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mr_anny sopuli.xyz mr_anny@sopuli.xyz
Joined: 2026-02-08
#5 · Quote Reply

All translations mentioning "is on fire" are wrong.
xxx palaa = xxx burns

On tulessa = is on fire

It's quite the different being on fire than to actually burn.
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Tuuktuuk piefed.europe.pub Tuuktuuk@piefed.europe.pub
Joined: 2025-08-31
#6 · (edited) Quote Reply
nocturne wrote:
Pala will be coming in the next couple days.
Kuusi päivää, että kuussasi kuusi palaa ja kuusi pudottelee kaikenlaista puista kaarnaista palaa; palaa sitten katsomaan kuusi kuusi: Kuusi palaa palaa sieltä rauhakseen!

Jääääretöööö.
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