When you first learn Finnish, pitää seems easy.

Minä pidän kahvista — I like coffee. Simple.

But then suddenly it means to have to, to hold, to keep, and even to give a speech.

Welcome to the wonderful chaos of one small Finnish word with many lives.

In this episode, me — a Finnish teacher living in Helsinki — walk you through the most common and useful meanings of pitää:

• pitää + sta/stä — to like

• pitää + verb — to have to, must
• pitää ovi auki / pitää huolta itsestäsi — to hold, keep, or take care
• pitää puhe, pitää kokous — to hold an event or a speech

…and all those beautiful idioms: pitää hauskaa, pitää yhteyttä, pitää paikkansa.

You’ll hear examples, gentle humor, and the deeper cultural logic hidden inside this everyday Finnish verb.

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Calm, clear, and full of meaning — that’s Finnish.

And that’s Nasta suomi.

Have you ever avoided saying Hyvää yötä because it felt like your tongue just refused to cooperate?

In this episode, Anastasia — your calm and slightly funny Finnish teacher from Helsinki — helps you finally understand how Finnish sounds really work.

You’ll learn:

• why Finnish is easier than it looks: one letter = one sound
• how to master double letters (laki vs lakki)
• why Finnish rhythm is always calm and steady
• what happens when English pronunciation sneaks into your Finnish
• and how Finns “Finnish-ify” foreign words like Facebookki and meilata.

By the end, you’ll sound more confident — and maybe even manage to say Hyvää yötä without a struggle.

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They’re an easy, clean way to get your daily vitamins — no pills, no rush, just gentle support that stays with you while you go live your Finnish life.

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🎧 Listen, learn, and fall in love with the sound of Finnish — calm, clear, and beautifully logical.

Yours,

Anastasia

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Have you ever said minua väsyttää and thought: “Wait… who is this mysterious someone who makes me tired?”

In this episode of Nasta Suomi, Anastasia — your calm and slightly funny Finnish teacher from Helsinki — explains emotion verbs, those magical Finnish verbs that describe how feelings happen to you.

You’ll learn:

• why we say minua väsyttää instead of olen väsynyt
• two families of feeling verbs: emotions (harmittaa, ilahduttaa, pelottaa) and sensations (väsyttää, paleltaa, janottaa)
• how old Finnish beliefs about nature and spirits still live in the language today

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