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Help with translation from Finnish
Hello. I need some help translating a Finnish Idiom:
Niin metsä vastaa kuin sinne huudetaan
All I know is that it's something relating to woods.

Please help.

thanks!

Language pair: Finnish; All

ArchivedMember
March 27, 2004

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Re:Help with translation from Finnish
Hello Lynne,
It has nothing to do with woods although the word "metsä" is mentioned.
It is a proverb actually and means that "the wood" answers the same way that you shout to it. In other words if you behave rudly towards people they will behave rudly to you. If you are nice the others are nice too.
Helena

Language pair: Finnish; All
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Helena
March 28, 2004

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