Nuoren turistin kesälomamuistot ja festarisuunnitelmat

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A2 Finnish listening practice · Finnish · Curated for beginners

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What does 'festarit' mean in Finnish?

festarit
noun · plural, colloquial
festivals: Finnish youth shorthand for the summer’s music-festival season, the year’s main social event

Festarit is Finnish youth slang for festivaalit (festivals), almost always meaning the summer’s music-festival season. Finns chop long loanwords and clip plural -t on the end: vekkari (alarm clock), kebari (kebab), kilkkarit (sandals), festarit (festivals). The clipped form sounds casual, friend-to-friend, the opposite of the official musiikkifestivaali.

In this clip, a young festival visitor (host calls him Turre, short for turisti) describes his summer plans. As a kid he played cops and robbers: « mä joutuisin vankilaan jos mä nyt tekisin tollasta » (I’d go to prison if I did that now). His grown-up plan: « tänä kesänä me ollaan kiertämässä festarikilavoja » (this summer we’re touring the festari circuit).

Vocabulary frequency

How common is the vocabulary in this A2 Finnish listening practice listening practice?

89.3%
of words are in the top 2,000 most common Finnish words
Based on this reel’s transcript, most of the vocabulary is high-frequency, everyday Finnish.

General Finnish frequency

83.3%
Top 1,000
89.3%
Top 2,000
95.2%
Top 5,000

Spoken Finnish frequency

98.5%
Top 1,000
100%
Top 2,000
100%
Top 5,000

Words above this video’s level

Quick glosses for vocabulary that goes beyond this video’s A2 level.

joutuis
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
quick
tollasta
2×
Rare / outside top 5,000
such a thing

Source: wordfreq 3.1.1 (general) · OpenSubtitles 2018 (HermitDave) (spoken). Buckets approximate; exact ranks not stored.

★Where you’ll hear this
  • ▸At Finland’s biggest summer festivals: Ruisrock in Turku, Provinssi in Seinäjoki, Flow Festival in Helsinki, and Ilosaarirock in Joensuu
  • ▸In Finnish music coverage on Yle (public broadcaster) and Helsingin Sanomat when the Kesän festarit season previews drop in May
  • ▸On Finnish youth and lifestyle content on Demi and Cosmopolitan Suomi when editors round up festarilookit (festival outfits) and festariruoka (festival food)
  • ▸On Finnish radio breakfast shows like YleX and Radio Nova when DJs read out festarit-themed contest entries

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