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| Miss Proximus |
Hyvää iltapäivää!!
Nimeni on Josta ja olen kotoisin Alankomaat (Holland?)
Anyway, I hope someone can help me! I am looking for the orgins of my name, and when I typed "josta" in the google search engine, I stumbled upon numerous Finnish sites using the word. I tried to find out what it means but had no luck!
Can anyone tell me what Josta means in Finnish, and whether you use this name as well?
Kiitos (thanks?)
Greetings, Josta |
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| Nuutti |
Ah, this is hard one to translate..
Finnish word "joka" is a pronoun that inflects to "josta". It can be traslated as "that".
For example:
Paikka joka on tuolla = The place that is there.
(Paikka=place, joka=that, on=is, tuolla=there)
Paikka josta tulimme = The place that we came from.
(tulimme = we came)
In later example we don't need corresponding word for english word "from" because it's included in finnish word "josta".
So it kind of means "out of something".
Finnish is a really difficult language btw. :nervous: |
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| Miss Proximus |
Thanks Nuutti :)
How funny that my name can be such an 'average' word :) And I agree, Finnish must be so difficult! But it is also a very fascinating language, as it has turned out to be more related to Hungarian than to any of the other Scandinavian languages! I wonder how these two different nations could be connected :) |
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| Nuutti |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Proximus
Thanks Nuutti :)
How funny that my name can be such an 'average' word :) And I agree, Finnish must be so difficult! But it is also a very fascinating language, as it has turned out to be more related to Hungarian than to any of the other Scandinavian languages! I wonder how these two different nations could be connected :) |
Yeah if I remember right Finnish and Hungarian languages belong to the same language family. While other Scandinavian languages have origins in German languages. The structure of Swedish is closer to English.
Joka/josta can also be used to refer to a person:
DJ joka on kuuluisa = DJ who is famous
DJ josta tuli kuuluisa = DJ who became famous
The closest womans name to "Josta" we have is "Asta" but I don't think they have anything to do with eachother. |
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| Mr.Mystery |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Proximus
Thanks Nuutti :)
How funny that my name can be such an 'average' word :) And I agree, Finnish must be so difficult! But it is also a very fascinating language, as it has turned out to be more related to Hungarian than to any of the other Scandinavian languages! I wonder how these two different nations could be connected :) |
Both Finnish and Hungarians are originated from the same area around the Ural mountains in Russia so yes, we are actually related to the Hungarians :) |
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| digitalbeat666 |
who=joka, kuka
who became famous= Josta tuli kuuluisa
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| Miss Proximus |
| quote: | Originally posted by digitalbeat666
who=joka, kuka
who became famous= Josta tuli kuuluisa
:) |
haha WHEN did I become famous? Overnight? :p
Which makes me wonder then, will you be able to understand a Hungarian when he speaks? Like I can understand a German, and a Spaniard can understand Portuguese and Italian people?
I live in Mexico temporarily and discovered that the phonetic part of the Mayan language is very close to the Asian languages. And many Mexicans have similar features as Asians (eyes, cheekbones etc)
I find that so interesting! I wonder when it was that different nations came into contact with each other etc. Maybe I should have studied history :p
Anyway, thanks you for your help! :) |
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| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Proximus
Which makes me wonder then, will you be able to understand a Hungarian when he speaks? |
no we can't at all really! the word and sentence structures are somewhat similar, but yet the languages differ so greatly that we can't understand each other! but estonians and us finns can understand each other somhow, but not THAT well though! estonian is very similar to finnish, a lot more than hungarian at least but it still differs quite a lot from finnish IMO at least. but finnish, hungarian and estonian are pretty much unique, like no other languages in the world, except for some small languages spoken by only a village of people somewhere or something like that. |
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| BetaFactory |
| Hungarian would be totally impossible to understand based from knowledge in only Finnish. The both languages must have been developing a lot in their own directions, and their common roots are way back in time. Estonia and Finland though have a more close geographical connection, and I think it's quite understandable that these two languages have stayed at least a bit the same. But I still suppose, that mostly when an Estonian and a Finn discuss with each other, they do it in English (can anybody confirm this please). |
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| digitalbeat666 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Miss Proximus
haha WHEN did I become famous? Overnight? :p
Which makes me wonder then, will you be able to understand a Hungarian when he speaks? Like I can understand a German, and a Spaniard can understand Portuguese and Italian people?
I live in Mexico temporarily and discovered that the phonetic part of the Mayan language is very close to the Asian languages. And many Mexicans have similar features as Asians (eyes, cheekbones etc)
I find that so interesting! I wonder when it was that different nations came into contact with each other etc. Maybe I should have studied history :p
Anyway, thanks you for your help! :) |
I cannot understand Hungarian. Yes I have to admit that some phonetics in different cultures reminds others.
My pleasure :) |
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| Miss Proximus |
| quote: | Originally posted by BetaFactory
The both languages must have been developing a lot in their own directions, and their common roots are way back in time. |
That makes sense! Every language involves in a certain direction, just as Mexican Spanish is different from the original Spanish, and for example Afrikaans has evolved in a very distinct way. It has similarities with Dutch but the Afrikaners can understand Dutch only when they try very very hard.
Man. I should not have studied hotel management :D History and a major in the evolvement of languages would have been better :D |
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