Ukázka z jedné anglickofinské knížky, kterou napsal jeden Němec přistěhovavší (to je hezký slovo,co? ;D) se do Finska v 80.letech:
Hell, the almighty God, his colleague the Devil and the fucking saints may be very helpful when it comes to insulting someone or to adding verve to what you're saying, but there's one swear-word above all others, one word that says it all, one word that is much stronger than religious blasphemy could ever be. I'm talking about the female reproductive organ, the vagine, the cunt, the quim, the fanny, the pussy, the slit, the beaver: the omnipresent vittu.
Statistics show, that vittu is actually the most frequetly used word in the spoken Finnish language. You'd think that in a country this eager to achieve equality between men and women the females would object to having their most intimate parts bandied about as an explentive. That, however, is not the case, on the contrary: Finnish women take pride in using it at least as much as the men do.
The male counterpart kyrpä is also used as a swear-word, but for some reason it doesn't evoke emotions as strong as vittu does. The women have definitely won this battle!
There are no limits to the creative use of vittu. There's a whole spectrum of derivatives: vittuilla, vituttaa, vittuuntua, vittumainen, mitä vittua etc. (to fuck with somebody, to be/get fucking angry, to be a mean fucker, what the fuck etc.) Probably the most versatile is the genitive vitun. It can be combined with virtually anything: vitun hyvä, vitun huono, vitun paska, vitun ihana...(fucking good, fucking bad, fucking shit, fucking great...)
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