Pääsuke

⚠Only semi-active because of a busy period in my studies⚠
Hello and welcome to LT, new user!
Two of the most important things to keep in mind:
1. Making requests: Request the translation/ transcription (the writing of song lyrics) of a song by going to: Main menu bar → Actions → Request a translation/ Request a transcription.
2. When adding a song, remember to also add the video. Also make sure that you're adding an official one, as those are not usually removed from Youtube, which reduces Editors' and Moderators' workload as they do not have to re-add the videos.
Official videos come in one of the four formats:
• Artist Name - Song Name (Topic) - Titles with the word "Topic" after them are videos generated by Youtube.
• Artist Name ♪ - Song Name - Artist names with a note (♪) after them are the official channel of the artist.
• Artist NameVEVO - Song Name - Artist names with "VEVO" after them also indicate an official channel.
• Artist Name - Song Name (Official) - This is the rarest format and usually means this is an independent artist. If the video is indeed an official one, the profile name usually matches with the artist's name.
Sometimes you have to scroll further down to find the correct video.
Useful websites:
Dictionaries
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ English language dictionary
https://www.thesaurus.com/ English thesaurus (for looking up synonyms)
http://www.writtensound.com/index.php Onomatopoeia dictionary for looking up sound words
https://www.etymonline.com/ Etymology dictionary for looking up the historical meanings of words
https://www.urbandictionary.com/ Urban Dictionary, the "original" one
https://www.sanakirja.org/ Multilingual dictionary based on Wiktionary (Finnish interface)
https://www.sanakirja.fi/ Multilingual dictionary, probably more trustworthy (Finnish interface)
http://www.eki.ee/dict/soome/ Finnish-Estonian-Finnish dictionary
https://urbaanisanakirja.com/ The Finnish equivalent of Urban Dictionary
https://nastikjr.palat.ee/ English-Estonian-English dictionary
http://www.eki.ee/dict/ekss/ Definitions of Estonian words
http://www.eki.ee/dict/sys/index.cgi Estonian thesaurus
https://glosbe.com/ Good multilingual dictionary
Other tools
https://convertcase.net/ Case converter
https://www.rhymer.com/ Rhyme dictionary (for poetry and such)
https://syllablecounter.net/ English syllable counter
An Estonian male who has been living in Finland for 15 years. My Finnish proficiency is C2, or native-like proficiency. Of course, I will probably never reach the same level of knowledge of small nuances and stylistic meaning that a Finnish-born speaker has, but I'm working on that all the time.
I originally created my first account on 23rd April 2016 – I consider this my anniversary – called Translationist, which I then renamed to Pääsuke, or 'Swallow'. I left LT, that is, removed my account, on 3rd May, 2018 because I was having a difficult period in life, but re-created my account on the same day. On my old account I had around 360 translations.
I like punk, rock, indie, EDM (mostly chillstep) and all the random songs that I stumble upon and think sound good.
One of my favourite bands is Haloo Helsinki and one of my favourite artists is Amy Macdonald.
I love Terry Pratchett's Discworld novels.
Personal quote: A mediocre translator thinks they know a language, a good translator knows they cannot ever fully know a language.
Funny quote: "We don't know how to rhyme, but damn we try" (Lady Gaga in "Always Remember Us This Way")
What translating has taught me:
1. There is a word for every thing and phenomenon. If not in your language, then in another language. Hence if you say "there's no word for it", you need to do some digging around on the net (or in the library.)
2. Don't fall prey to negative interference. The phenomenon means that people are prone to using the structure found in their native language when translating things. Be aware of the phenomenon and it will be easier to avoid it. Of course, there is also positive interference, which makes learning some structures easier in your target language.
3. This is pretty much repeating the second point, but be aware that if you say something using an X construction, this is probably not the case in the target language. Use parenthesis in your Google search to find out the exact wording of a phrase. You can search for "a fast horse" and see how many hits you get. When you search for "a quick horse", you will get more hits because this is the correct way of saying it. In other words, the word 'horse' collocates, that is, appears together with the word 'quick'. By the same logic, you see 'fast' with 'car' together. Of course you can use the parenthesis search-method for other kinds of phrases as well.
4. There are some fixed phrases that cannot be changed, they must be written the way you see them: take for example 'salt and pepper', and 'black and white' (or why not even 'mac and cheese'): if you change the word order, they just seem weird. The fixed word order is especially true for idioms: 'it's raining cats and dogs', but not the other way around.
All the songs that I have come across because of LT:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3P6NdbEtu0nQugYGB6XkxL?si=bR8BkEnSQUik...
314 översättningar publicerade av PääsukeDetaljerSamtliga översättningar
Artist | Översättning | Språk | Kommentarer | Info | Info | ![]() |
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Peeter Tooma | Väiksed kastid | estniska → engelska | estniska → engelska | |||
Vanilla Ninja | Kauge kuu | estniska → finska | estniska → finska | |||
Haloo Helsinki! | Piilotan mun kyyneleet | finska → estniska | finska → estniska | |||
Haloo Helsinki! | Jos mun pokka pettää | finska → estniska | finska → estniska | |||
Christy Moore | Only Our Rivers Run Free | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Lewis Capaldi | Someone You Loved | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Lewis Capaldi | Before You Go | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Ivo Linna | Eestlane olen ja eestlaseks jään | estniska → engelska | tackad 1 gång | estniska → engelska tackad 1 gång | ||
Birdy | Open Your Heart | engelska → estniska | 4 | tackad 1 gång | engelska → estniska tackad 1 gång | |
Birdy | Open Your Heart | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Savage Garden | Truly Madly Deeply | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Tom Petty | Free Fallin' | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Shake Shake Go | England Skies | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
A Star Is Born (OST) | Always Remember Us This Way | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Freelance Whales | Generator^2nd Floor | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Freelance Whales | Generator^1st Floor | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Freelance Whales | Generator^1st Floor | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Nightwish | Over the Hills and Far Away | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Toby Keith | God Love Her | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Kate Bush | Wuthering Heights | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Skillet | Awake And Alive | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Juha Tapio | En mitään, en ketään | finska → estniska | finska → estniska | |||
Tiktak | Heilutaan | finska → estniska | finska → estniska | |||
Cyndi Lauper | Girls Just Want to Have Fun | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Blackburn | Fade Away | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Sophie Zelmani | Going Home | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Rustam Mulachanov | Kukkuk | Mansi → estniska | tackad 2 gånger | Mansi → estniska tackad 2 gånger | ||
The Dubliners | Molly Maguires | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
The Flaming Lips | Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 1 | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Katatonia | Takeover | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Ithilien | Lies After Lies | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
The Pogues | Thousands Are Sailing | engelska → estniska | tackad 1 gång | engelska → estniska tackad 1 gång | ||
Matti Louhivuori | Muhoksen mimmi | finska → estniska | finska → estniska | |||
Geneva May | Still | engelska → estniska | tackad 1 gång | engelska → estniska tackad 1 gång | ||
Banks | Gemini Feed | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
nublu | Universum | estniska, finska → engelska | 7 | tackad 6 gånger | estniska, finska → engelska tackad 6 gånger | |
Paabel | Ilus tüdruk | estniska → engelska | tackad 2 gånger | estniska → engelska tackad 2 gånger | ||
Camila Cabello | Never Be The Same | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Vesala | Tequila | finska → engelska | finska → engelska | |||
Juha Tapio | Raikas tuuli | finska → estniska | finska → estniska | |||
Mikko Harju | Mä olen tässä | finska → estniska | finska → estniska | |||
Andrea del Boca | Burbujas | spanska → estniska | spanska → estniska | |||
Lucy Schwartz | Keep Me | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Haloo Helsinki! | Lady Domina | finska → estniska | tackad 2 gånger | finska → estniska tackad 2 gånger | ||
Grease (OST) | You're The One That I Want | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Sami Hintsanen | Hjallis | finska → estniska | tackad 1 gång | finska → estniska tackad 1 gång | ||
Kenny Loggins | Danger Zone | engelska → finska | tackad 1 gång | engelska → finska tackad 1 gång | ||
Lana Del Rey | Love | engelska → estniska | tackad 1 gång | engelska → estniska tackad 1 gång | ||
Christy Moore | Ride On | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Maustetytöt | Tee se itse | finska → engelska | 1 | tackad 10 gånger | finska → engelska tackad 10 gånger | |
Celtic Woman | Amazing Grace | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Cat Stevens | Peace Train | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Red Hot Chili Peppers | Snow (Hey Oh) | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Haloo Helsinki! | Beibi | finska → estniska | tackad 1 gång | finska → estniska tackad 1 gång | ||
Haloo Helsinki! | Beibi | finska → estniska | finska → estniska | |||
Go Betty Go | C'mon | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Juha Tapio | Kaksi puuta | finska → estniska | tackad 1 gång | finska → estniska tackad 1 gång | ||
Lucy Schwartz | Feeling Of Being | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Lucy Schwartz | Feeling Of Being | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Karliene | Written in Starlight | engelska → finska | 2 | tackad 1 gång | engelska → finska tackad 1 gång | |
Karliene | Written in Starlight | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Amy Macdonald | Leap Of Faith | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Celtic Woman | The Parting Glass | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Christy Moore | Only Our Rivers Run Free | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Christy Moore | Only Our Rivers Run Free | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Christy Moore | Only Our Rivers Run Free | engelska → estniska | tackad 1 gång | engelska → estniska tackad 1 gång | ||
The Irish Rovers | Star of the County Down | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Paddy Reilly | The Fields of Athenry | engelska → finska | tackad 1 gång | engelska → finska tackad 1 gång | ||
Paddy Reilly | The Fields of Athenry | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Paddy Reilly | The Fields of Athenry | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
BØRNS | Past Lives | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
Juha Tapio | Sitkeä sydän | finska → estniska | finska → estniska | |||
Celtic Woman | The Parting Glass | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Robbie Robb | In Time | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Metsatöll | Talisman | estniska → engelska | 1 | tackad 1 gång | estniska → engelska tackad 1 gång | |
Laine | Lõpulaul | estniska → engelska | tackad 1 gång | estniska → engelska tackad 1 gång | ||
Ithaka Maria | Sinu Jaoks | estniska → engelska | tackad 1 gång | estniska → engelska tackad 1 gång | ||
Ithaka Maria | Paremaid päevi | estniska → engelska | tackad 1 gång | estniska → engelska tackad 1 gång | ||
Frozen (OST) | Süda Külm [Frozen Heart] | estniska → engelska | tackad 1 gång | estniska → engelska tackad 1 gång | ||
Ithaka Maria | Palume lavale | estniska → engelska | tackad 1 gång | estniska → engelska tackad 1 gång | ||
ALMA (Finland) | Dye My Hair | engelska → finska | engelska → finska | |||
4 Non Blondes | What's Up? | engelska → finska | 2 | tackad 1 gång | engelska → finska tackad 1 gång | |
Ithaka Maria | Hallo | estniska → engelska | tackad 1 gång | estniska → engelska tackad 1 gång | ||
Birgit Õigemeel | Me täna öösel ei maga | estniska → finska | estniska → finska | |||
Diane Birch | Lighthouse | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
G.R.L. | Lighthouse | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Fink | Shakespeare | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Jean Sibelius | Finlandia | finska → estniska | finska → estniska | |||
Haloo Helsinki! | Rakas | finska → estniska | 2 | finska → estniska | ||
The Rembrandts | I'll Be There For You | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Zen Café | Todella kaunis | finska → estniska | finska → estniska | |||
First Aid Kit | Fireworks | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
K-391 | End of Time | engelska → estniska | tackad 1 gång | engelska → estniska tackad 1 gång | ||
Illenium | Sound of Walking Away | engelska → estniska | tackad 1 gång | engelska → estniska tackad 1 gång | ||
Mäkki | Laival eka laival vika | finska → estniska | tackad 2 gånger | finska → estniska tackad 2 gånger | ||
Bomfunk MC's | Freestyler | engelska → finska | 3 | engelska → finska | ||
Amy Macdonald | Don't Tell Me That It's Over | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Amy Macdonald | Feed My Fire | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Alan Walker | Alone | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska | |||
Alan Walker | Play | engelska → estniska | engelska → estniska |