kostas22 wrote:Mika Hakkinen voisi vatkata HWNSNBM helposti!
Epic.
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Especially that you're a huge Häkkinen fan! (After all he's the man whose success brought me into this sport)
However, there's a few errors I'd like to point out. First of, the verb "vatkata" is not good at all in this context. "Vatkata" means (colloquially) "to shake" (a milk shake, for example). A better one would be "hakata", which is literally "to beat up", "lyödä", "to beat" or simply "voittaa", "to win". "Voisi" literally means "could", but using this word means that you're not sure about the thing, i.e. it's a conditional. Instead, putting the "-isi" ending to the end of the verb (and removing the "voisi" word altogether) makes the werb mean more like "would", e.g. you're quite sure about the thing. So, the correct form would be "hakkaisi", "löisi" (notice the informal morphing of the verb) or "voittaisi": the present tense of the verb "hakata" is "hakkaa" (quite fitting for "Häkkinen"), while with "voittaa" and "lyödä" it happens to be the same as the basic tense. The second "a" letter disappears to prevent three back-to-back vowels. Last, in Finnish you need to define the verb's object: I'm not going any further with that, but the correct form of HWNSNBM here would be "HWNSNBM:n", adding the genetive for "-n" to define that he would be beaten (I had to add a colon as the name is written in all capitals).
The phrase "mennen tullen" is often used in place of "helposti (easily), so use that if you want to make this claim more FInnish.
So, in the end, the above phrase would read something like this in proper Finnish: Mika Häkkinen hakkaisi/löisi/voittaisi HWNSNBM:n helposti/mennen tullen!
But you did rather well considering your lack of experience with the language and the use of Google Translator (at least your text looked better then the mchine-translated user manuals I've read every once in a while, hehe).
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Sorry for the magnificent offtopic, I just can't resist myself when I see a foreigner trying to write Finnish!
In keeping with the topic: HWNSNBM laughs at the above claim, and latest reports tell that a bunch of papayas are about to hit Finland soon...