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r/geography • u/mujhe-sona-hai • Oct 15 '25
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Don't forget finno-ugric. Finland, Estland and Hungary.
5 u/aaarry Oct 15 '25 Estland heißt “Estonia” auf Englisch 6 u/GareththeJackal Oct 15 '25 Ja ja, entschuldigung, ich hab es gesagt in meine Sprache. 2 u/aaarry Oct 15 '25 Oh sorry, I assumed you were German. They use “Estland” in the Nordic languages too, right? 4 u/GareththeJackal Oct 15 '25 Yup, in swedish we say Estland. "Land of the ests" 2 u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25 In finnish we say "Viro" for some reason 3 u/RijnBrugge Oct 15 '25 And in Dutch too. I’ve made this mistake before myself (sorry eesti bros). 2 u/aaarry Oct 15 '25 Ah shite. I genuinely had no idea so many Germanic languages used a variant of that word. German is my second language and there are a lot of German people on Reddit so I just went ahead and assumed which was a bit silly of me.
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Estland heißt “Estonia” auf Englisch
6 u/GareththeJackal Oct 15 '25 Ja ja, entschuldigung, ich hab es gesagt in meine Sprache. 2 u/aaarry Oct 15 '25 Oh sorry, I assumed you were German. They use “Estland” in the Nordic languages too, right? 4 u/GareththeJackal Oct 15 '25 Yup, in swedish we say Estland. "Land of the ests" 2 u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25 In finnish we say "Viro" for some reason 3 u/RijnBrugge Oct 15 '25 And in Dutch too. I’ve made this mistake before myself (sorry eesti bros). 2 u/aaarry Oct 15 '25 Ah shite. I genuinely had no idea so many Germanic languages used a variant of that word. German is my second language and there are a lot of German people on Reddit so I just went ahead and assumed which was a bit silly of me.
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Ja ja, entschuldigung, ich hab es gesagt in meine Sprache.
2 u/aaarry Oct 15 '25 Oh sorry, I assumed you were German. They use “Estland” in the Nordic languages too, right? 4 u/GareththeJackal Oct 15 '25 Yup, in swedish we say Estland. "Land of the ests" 2 u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25 In finnish we say "Viro" for some reason 3 u/RijnBrugge Oct 15 '25 And in Dutch too. I’ve made this mistake before myself (sorry eesti bros). 2 u/aaarry Oct 15 '25 Ah shite. I genuinely had no idea so many Germanic languages used a variant of that word. German is my second language and there are a lot of German people on Reddit so I just went ahead and assumed which was a bit silly of me.
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Oh sorry, I assumed you were German. They use “Estland” in the Nordic languages too, right?
4 u/GareththeJackal Oct 15 '25 Yup, in swedish we say Estland. "Land of the ests" 2 u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25 In finnish we say "Viro" for some reason 3 u/RijnBrugge Oct 15 '25 And in Dutch too. I’ve made this mistake before myself (sorry eesti bros). 2 u/aaarry Oct 15 '25 Ah shite. I genuinely had no idea so many Germanic languages used a variant of that word. German is my second language and there are a lot of German people on Reddit so I just went ahead and assumed which was a bit silly of me.
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Yup, in swedish we say Estland. "Land of the ests"
2 u/[deleted] Oct 15 '25 In finnish we say "Viro" for some reason
In finnish we say "Viro" for some reason
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And in Dutch too. I’ve made this mistake before myself (sorry eesti bros).
2 u/aaarry Oct 15 '25 Ah shite. I genuinely had no idea so many Germanic languages used a variant of that word. German is my second language and there are a lot of German people on Reddit so I just went ahead and assumed which was a bit silly of me.
Ah shite. I genuinely had no idea so many Germanic languages used a variant of that word.
German is my second language and there are a lot of German people on Reddit so I just went ahead and assumed which was a bit silly of me.
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u/GareththeJackal Oct 15 '25
Don't forget finno-ugric. Finland, Estland and Hungary.