https://linustechtips.com/main/topic/72936-english-swedish-g...
I'm a recent immigrant to Finland, and while the regular grammar makes some things simple, the cases and suffixes are enough to drive me crazy! The simple things are easy to handle if you're reading a textbook, but remembering them in real-time when speaking is very hard.
- kuu = moon
- kuusi = spruce
- palaa = returns
- pala = piece
From those you can see how one can intrepent the compound word (with or without suffix) however you wish.
Eg:
- kuu+si = your moon (where 'si' is the suffix which means 'your')
- pala+a = pieces (where 'a' suffix is the plural)
- kuusi = six
Satan's cunt-head
Can we get a bit more detail here? Are those variations on pronunciation? How does a native Finn able to infer the correct meaning?
The only way to infer what's meant is from context.
[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lion-Eating_Poet_in_the_Stone_...
Interestingly when I showed the actual text to my wife, who is Chinese, she didn't understand what was funny about it until I asked her to read it to me, when she burst out laughing. That's when I found out she doesn't sub-vocalise, where I do all the time.
On the other hand, most of the characters used to be pronounced differently when they were still commonly used as individual words, so the poem only works because it mixes modern pronunciation with classical grammar.