lämmike (lämmikettä)

MEANING:

Noun: A warmer. (Anything to warm somebody up, including pieces of cloth or alcoholic drinks.)

Lämmike appears in our example in the partitive singular, lämmikettä

DERIVED FROM:

Lämmike comes from lämmin (”warm”) +‎ -ke (a suffix sometimes used to produce nouns from adjectives.)

EXTRA CREDIT:

The other word in the phrase, piristystä, means ”a cheering up,” or perhaps a better translation here is ”jazz up!”

The basic meaning is that this coffee will warm you up and perk you up. A better colloquial translation of the slogan ”lämmikettä, piristystä!” is very welcome.

taikuri

taikuri

MEANING:

Noun: magician, conjurer.

DERIVED FROM:

Taikuri comes from the verb taikoa (”to conjur” or ”to perform magic tricks”) +‎ -uri (a suffix used to create the name of a profession from a noun or verb.)

EXTRA CREDIT:

A few other –uri or –ri suffixed words and the words they are derived from:

kartta (“map”) → kartturi (“navigator”)
puutarha (“garden”) → puutarhuri (“gardener”)
rokki (“rock music”) → rokkari (“rocker”)
parta (”beard”) → parturi (”barber”)

menestys (menestykseen)

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menestys

MEANING:

Noun: success.

Menestys appears in our example in the illative singular case, menestykseen where it means ”to success.”

DERIVED FROM:

Menestys comes from the verb menestyä, which means ”to flourish,” ”to thrive,” ”to prosper” or ”to succeed.”

EXTRA CREDIT:

Our whole phrase ”Avaa ovet menestykseen” means ”Open the doors to success.”

menneisyys

menneisyys

MEANING:

Noun: (the) past.

DERIVED FROM:

Menneisyys comes from mennyt (an adjective meaning ”past” or ”bygone”) +‎ the suffix -yys which is used to create nouns from adjectives.

Mennyt is the active past participle of the verb mennä, which means”to go.”

EXTRA CREDIT:

Menneisyys (original title ”Le passe”) is a 2013 French film from Iranian director Asghar Farhadi.

uhata (uhkaavat)

uhata

MEANING:

Verb (type 4): to threaten.

Uhata appears in our example in the 3rd person plural present tense form, uhkaavat.

See uhata fully conjugated here.

EXTRA CREDIT:

The whole headline ”Ravintolat uhkaavat terassi boikotilla” means ”Restaurants threaten terrace boycott.”

nokka

nokka

MEANING:

Noun: beak, bill, rostrum; tip, top.

Check the sanakirja.org entry for many related meanings.

EXTRA CREDIT:

Here are a few more words related to or made from nokka.

nokkia – a verb, meaning ”to peck.” (When a bird pecks, it bites, hits, or picks up something small with its beak.)
nokkava – ”cheeky.” (Slightly rude or showing no respect, but often in a funny way.)
nokkakolari – ”head-on collision.”

taitoluistelu

taitoluistelu

MEANING:

Noun: (sports) figure skating.

DERIVED FROM:

Taitoluistelu is a compound of taito (”skill” or ”art”) +‎ luistelu (”skating”). Luistelu comes from the verb luistella (”to skate”).

EXTRA CREDIT:

Here are a couple more words related to luistelu (”skating”).

luistelija – skater
luistin – ice skate, skate

mielellään (mielellämme)

mielellään

MEANING:

Adverb: Gladly, willingly, not grudgingly, with pleasure.

The basic form of this adverb is miellelään. In our example phrase, miellelään is in the 1st person plural form, mielellämme so the form of the adverb is in agreement with the subject of the sentence. In this case, it is 1st person plural because annamme means ”we give.”

DERIVED FROM:

Mielellään comes from mielellä, adessive singular of mieli (”mind”) plus the appropriate possessive suffix -ni/-si/-nsä/-mme/-nne.

EXTRA CREDIT:

The whole phrase annamme mielellämme lisätietoja means ”we gladly give more information.”

päämäärä

päämäärä

MEANING:

Noun: goal, aim, objective.

DERIVED FROM:

Päämäärä is a compound term constructed from pää (”head”) +‎ määrä (a dated word for ”aim” or ”ambition” more commonly used nowadays to mean ”amount” or ”quantity”).

EXTRA CREDIT:

The whole phrase, ”Tärkeintä ei ole päämäärä vaan sinne pääseminen” translates as ”The most important thing is not the goal, but getting there.”