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Basic greetings

 * Huomenta - Good morning
 * (Hyvää) päivää - Good afternoon (or morning)
 * (Hyvää) iltaa - Good evening
 * Hyvää yötä / Öitä - Good night
 * Terve! / Moro! - Hello!
 * Hei! / moi! - Hi!
 * Heippa! / Moikka! / Hei hei! / Moi moi! - Bye!
 * Näkemiin - See you later
 * Hyvästi - Goodbye
 * Hauska tavata! - Nice to meet you
 * Kiitos - Thank you
 * Kiitos, samoin - Likewise
 * Mitä kuuluu - How you doing?
 * Kiitos hyvää - I'm fine, thank you
 * Tervetuloa! - Welcome!

Important words
¹ ''-te is added to make the sentence formal. Otherwise, without the added "-te", it is informal. It is also added when talking to more than one person.''
 * kyllä - yes
 * ei - no
 * olen / minä olen - I am
 * minä, sinä, hän - I, you, he/she
 * Mä, Sä - I, you [Informal / slang]
 * me, te, he - we, you, they
 * se - it
 * yksi, kaksi, kolme - one, two, three
 * neljä, viisi, kuusi - four, five, six
 * seitsemän, kahdeksan - seven, eight
 * yhdeksän, kymmenen - nine, ten
 * sata, tuhat, miljoona - hundred, thousand, million
 * Anteeksi - sorry
 * olut - beer
 * karhu - bear
 * Suomi - Finland
 * suomi - Finnish
 * Mitä kuuluu? - how are you? (literally "what is heard?", thus it is not used among strangers. )
 * En ymmärrä - I don't understand
 * Ymmärrän / Minä ymmärrän - I understand
 * ¹Ymmärrät(te)kö suomea? - Do you understand Finnish?
 * ¹Puhut(te)ko englantia? - Do you speak English?
 * Olen englantilainen / amerikkalainen / australialainen / uusiseelantilainen / irlantilainen / skotlantilainen - I am English / American / Australian / New Zealander / Irish / Scottish
 * ¹Olet(te)ko englantilainen? - Are you English?
 * Missä sinä asut/¹Missä te asutte? - Where do you live?

Scots (Germanic)
Scots survives in a number of dialects. The North east Central (Fife) pronunciation is marked NeC, North East Scots (Doric) is marked as NE. C ans S for central and southern pronunciatons. The unmarked pronunciations are generally used in most areas. A /t/ between vowels and final is glottalised. This may also occur with a final /d/.


 * Scots: Scots [skots, skOts]
 * hello: awricht [A'rIxt, a'rIxt], NE: whit like [fIt l@ik]
 * good-bye: see ye [si: ji:]
 * thank you: ta [ta:]
 * that one: that ane [C and S Dat jIn, NeC Dat en, at en, NE <tt>at in]</tt>
 * no: nae <tt>[ne:, nQ </tt> NE <tt>na]</tt>
 * yes: ay <tt>[AI]</tt>
 * sorry: sairy <tt>[se:rI]</tt>
 * I don’t understand: A dinna unnerstaund <tt>[a dIn@ Vn@rstA:n(d), a dIne Vn@rstA:n(d), a dIna Vn@rstA:n(d)]</tt>
 * where’s the bathroom?: whaur’s the cludgie? <tt>[WA:rz D@ klVdZI,]</tt>. NE: whaur’s the chantie <tt>[fArz i 'tSVntI]</tt>
 * generic toast: cheers! <tt>[tSi:rz]</tt>
 * Do you speak English?: Dae ye speak English? <tt>[de: ji spIk INlIS,</tt> NE <tt> di: ji spIk INlIS]</tt>

Scottish Gaelic (Celtic)

 * Gaelic: Gàidhlig (GAH-lick)
 * welcome: fàilte (FAL-tyuh)
 * good-bye: mar sin leibh (mar SHIN laif)
 * please: mas e do thoil e (mah SHEH daw HOL eh)
 * thank you: tapadh leibh (TAH-pah ley)
 * sorry: tha mi duilich (hah mee DOO-leekh)
 * that one: am fear sin (am fer SHIN)
 * how much?: cia mheud (kah VIT)
 * English: Beurla (BYER-luh)
 * yes: 2tha (hah)
 * no: 3chan eil (chan YIL)
 * I don’t understand: chan eil mi a' thuigsinn (khan YIL mee uh TOOK-shin)
 * Where’s the bathroom?: càit a bheil an taigh beag? (KATCH-uh vil an TUH-eeh bik)
 * generic toast: slàinte (SLAN-tyuh)