Thinking about the Finnish quirk of using the pronoun "it" to denote every human being except a pretentious arsehole in informal speech, and cats and other pets but especially cats.
When speaking of Paavo, a man: "Se ei halunnu aamupalaa tänään." He did not want breakfast today.
When speaking of Paavo, a cat: "Hänelle ei nappulat tänä aamuna kelvanneet." This morning his grace declined the kibble.
Generally you'll just use the word "se" to refer to anyone.
Finnish is generally gender neutral anyway, apart from words like fireman etc. but it's also funny to me that you won't necessarily know if someone is talking about a single entity that is a human, a plant, a cow, a dog... But you'll almost invariably know when it's a cat!
Anyway. The whole "hän" pronoun is apparently a clerical invention because religious people wanted god to be referred to with a more fancy word than any old people. And Finns immediately went: Ah yes, use this word for cats and/or deeply sarcastically, then!
Further examples:
"Se sataa aika rankasti ulkona." It (nature) is raining quite a bit outside.
"Se ei tienny mille raiteelle mennä." It (train) didn't know which rail to stop on.
"Se halus että soitan sen äidille." They (a person) wanted me to call their mother.
"Hän laittoi meille uuden kokouksen vielä maanantaille." They (a singular person who is an arse and an inconvenience who didn't think of anyone else) set another meeting for us on Monday.
"Hän on vähän sellainen kusilonkki." They (a cat) are something of a little piss wizard.
@sinituulia :o
"Hän on vähän sellainen kusilonkki." They (a cat) are something of a little piss wizard.
I need to update my profile, brb
@catsalad 😆
Edit: Oh my god, you did! Fantastic
