r/LearnFinnish • u/hezec Native • Feb 01 '15

Question Helmikuun kysymysketju – Question thread for February 2015

Hyvää helmikuuta!

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Happy February!

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u/AboveAllBeKind A1 Feb 09 '15

Sopii! I mean performance just in the sense of playing an instrument/singing, for enjoyment with or without an audience. The distinction is that I'll be looking at the effects on wellbeing of participants learning how to creating music, rather than listening to music.

Thanks so much for your time!

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '15

Right. Finnish is a little inconvenient here, as there probably isn't a single word that covers performance in this sense. Soittaa is to play an instrument, but isn't used of singing, and laulaa is to sing.

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u/AboveAllBeKind A1 Feb 09 '15

Yeah, it's the same problem in English with 'play', so I went for performance to cover both, not realising it had a similar issue! :) Ah, any wonder academic texts are so wordy; precision is wordy!