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Estonian is the mother tongue of 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 abroad, mostly in Sweden, Finland, Germany, the USA, Canada and Russia. A further 168,000 or so people are able to speak Estonian. This puts Estonian among the top two hundred of the world's thousands of languages, and among the Uralic languages in third place after Hungarian and Finnish. However, in the beauty stakes, Estonian is right up at the top. There are older people who can say that at one time the Estonian language took second place after Italian in a beauty contest, with the sentence Sõida tasa üle silla (Go slowly over the bridge).
ltd wrote:Some interesting reading:
http://www.estonica.org/eng/lugu.html?k ... yy_id=1090Estonian is the mother tongue of 922,000 people in Estonia and 160,000 abroad, mostly in Sweden, Finland, Germany, the USA, Canada and Russia. A further 168,000 or so people are able to speak Estonian. This puts Estonian among the top two hundred of the world's thousands of languages, and among the Uralic languages in third place after Hungarian and Finnish. However, in the beauty stakes, Estonian is right up at the top. There are older people who can say that at one time the Estonian language took second place after Italian in a beauty contest, with the sentence Sõida tasa üle silla (Go slowly over the bridge).
eurooplane wrote:Ma ei teadnud, et iludusvõidlused olelevad.
Palju õnne ! (congratulation)
Funny point!:)Ma ei teadnud, et iludusvõistlused on olemas.
võidlus would be like spreading butter on a bread Very Happy.
Thanks for your synthesis, it’s very good for memory!:)And, remember also:
võistlus - competition, match, contest (sportly)
võitlus - fight, combat
võit - victory, win
või - butter
võidma - to spread (the butter on a bread or smth on smth)
võitma - to win
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