Glossary entry (derived from question below)
Finnish term or phrase:
kato mita tietaa
English translation:
look what he/she knows
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Alfa Trans (X)
Mar 20, 2005 16:47
19 yrs ago
Finnish term
thang chin
kato mita tietaa
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General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters
greeting
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kato = look
mitä = what
tietää = he/she knows
It is not a greeting, in fact it doesn't mean anything, unless you add kato mitä HÄN tietää (you cannot leave the third person singular personal pronoun out in Finnish).
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Note added at 21 mins (2005-03-20 17:09:29 GMT)
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A word-for-word translation would be: Look what he/she knows.
mitä = what
tietää = he/she knows
It is not a greeting, in fact it doesn't mean anything, unless you add kato mitä HÄN tietää (you cannot leave the third person singular personal pronoun out in Finnish).
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Note added at 21 mins (2005-03-20 17:09:29 GMT)
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A word-for-word translation would be: Look what he/she knows.
3 KudoZ points awarded for this answer.
Comment: "This was how someone from Finland started a conversation so I had assumed it to be a greeting. Other means of translations did not make any sense either. Thank you anyway."
21 hrs
What's going down
Haven't a clue actually
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