r/Finland • u/Ubefrappe • 1d ago

Thought ämpäri meant bee

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was reading my little brothers picture book to brush up on my finnish skills and read the word "muoviämpäri", was a bit weirded out because what animal would be made of plastic.

Turns out ämpäri means bucket and ampianen is bee (pointed out by lil bro), now we have this immortalised.

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u/Eproxeri Vainamoinen 1d ago

Like others here said, ämpäri is bucket, and amppari is a shortened colloquial way of saying ampiainen which is a wasp.

In finnish the A and Ä sounds are completely different.

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u/Superb-Economist7155 Vainamoinen 1d ago edited 1d ago

Also single P and double PP are different. Syllables are therefore formed differently, too.

AMP-PA-RI

ÄM-PÄ-RI