Lessons in Finnish

600 is kuusisataa written in Finnish.

KUUSI means both number six and a spruce.

SATAA is both a verb meaning rain (any kind water, snow, hail) and a partitive of the number hundred.

So kuusisataa is a the number "600" or "the spruce is raining" which don't really make any sense, or is spoken by a drunk person.

The correct version would be kuusia sataa if you'd like to say that it's raining spruces. But close enough.

If you wanted to say "600 spruces" in Finnish you'd say "kuusisataa kuusta"or you'd say "kuusia on kuusisataa". Anyway what ever you are saying regarding the subject you use the words "kuusi" and "sataa" in different ways.

After number 6 , 600 is the only number that can be a drawn with literal symbols. 100 is "sata" which only means the number 100. It gets the double meaning when you add the second a to the end and then it is the partitive and we use it in plural of hundreds and the verb for raining. Actually if you just want the plural of 100 ="sata" it would be "sadat", but it's not used with numbers. Even when it would be quite logical. Easy enough?

So this was the only opportunity left to teach you something funny regarding the Blip numbers I'm achieving.

More on Finnish language in Wikipedia.

Perhaps someone with a degree in Finnish language will set me straight with what I just told you... I did the best I could. It's been too many years since senior high school...

But like I said. Close enough and quite funny.
This is even better lesson about the spruce... and the double meanings. And it's all true. I swear.

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