A peculiarity of the war was that the Finnish army was forced to demobilise their forces while at the same time fighting to force the German army to leave Finland.

A Finnish peculiarity is that the parliament can make exceptions to the constitution in ordinary laws that are enacted in the same procedure as constitutional amendments.

However this ideal is not normally achieved in practice ; some languages ( such as Spanish and Finnish ) come close to it, while others ( such as English ) deviate from it to a much larger degree.

Like Agatha Christie, she isn't overly fond of the detective she is most famous for creating – in Ariadne's case the Finnish sleuth Sven Hjerson.

Adjacent to the pool is a sauna executed in a rustic style, alluding to both Finnish and Japanese precedents.

The design of the house is a synthesis of numerous stylistic influences, from traditional Finnish vernacular to purist modernism, as well as influences from English and Japanese architecture.

In Finnish, the ablative case is the sixth of the locative cases with the meaning " from, off, of ", e. g. pöytä – pöydältä " table – off from the table ".

The Finnish ablative is also used in time expressions to indicate start times as well as with verbs expressing feelings or emotions.

* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.

At the semi-enclosed bays with major freshwater inflows, such as head of Finnish Gulf with Neva mouth and head of Bothnian gulf with close mouths of Lule, Tornio and Kemi, the salinity is considerably lower.

The uplift is about eight millimetres per year on the Finnish coast of the northernmost Gulf of Bothnia.

In Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish, besides the ordinal naming of centuries another system is often used based on the hundreds part of the year, and consequently centuries start at even multiples of 100.

The current Finnish cabinet is an even wider rainbow coalition of a total of six parties.

The conservative party in Finland is the National Coalition Party ( in Finnish Kansallinen Kokoomus, Kok ).

Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

Finnish dog tags are also designed to be broken in two ; however, the only text on it is the personal identification number and the letters SF, which stands for Suomi Finland, within a tower stamped atop of the upper half.

Rosa has an especially large following in Finland, and in 1999, he created a special 32-page Donald, Scrooge, Gearloose & nephews strip for his Finnish fans ; Sammon Salaisuus ( translates to The secret of the Sampo, but it is officially named The Quest for Kalevala

One example is of a then Finnish mobile network company Sonera, which paid huge sums in German broadband auction then dubbed as 3G licenses.

The Finnish part lies entirely within Tornio in northern Finland, and is actually only long.

Like Finnish and Hungarian, Estonian is a somewhat agglutinative language, but unlike them, it has lost the vowel harmony of the hypothetical Proto-Uralic language, although in older texts the vowel harmony can still be recognized.

Unlike in standard German but like Finnish and Swedish ( when followed by ' r '), Ä is pronounced, as in English mat.

* The Finnish capital, Helsinki, is the northernmost capital city on the mainland of the European continent, and ranks as third globally.

The country is ethnically homogeneous, the dominant ethnicity being Finnish people.

Finns enjoy individual and political freedoms, and suffrage is universal at 18 ; Finnish women became the first in the world to have unrestricted rights both to vote and to stand for parliament.

In January 1941, German officer Erich Buschenhagen was ordered to Finland to discuss the possibility of a Finnish-German cooperative effort against the Soviet Union with the Finnish leadership.

This war, called the Continuation War by Finland, began at first as a defensive war, but with the Sword Scabbard Declaration Mannerheim had lost the possibility to brand it as a defensive war, or even as a war of revanchism to regain the territory lost in the Winter War, where 1 / 8 of the Finnish populace lived.

Complete with computer controlled AI teams and the possibility to set up online leagues to play against friends, it was created by a small independent team led by Finnish programmer Risto Remes and was coded in the Visual Basic programming language.

* 1918 – Finland's " Mosaic Confessors " law went into effect, making Finnish Jews full citizens.

He also served as Speaker of the Parliament of Finland from 2003 – 2007 and was his party's nominee in the 2012 Finnish presidential election but received only 6. 7 % of the votes, making it the biggest defeat the Social Democratic Party has ever had in Finnish Presidential elections.

* 1808 – Finnish War: In the Battle of Jutas, Swedish forces under Lieutenant General Georg Carl von Döbeln beat the Russians, making von Döbeln a Swedish war hero.

A Western Finnish dialectal phenomenon seen in some dialects is the assimilation of the final-a into a preceding vowel, thus making the chroneme the partitive marker.

This led to the use of " Perkele " as a translation for " devil " in the Finnish translation of the Bible, thus making the use of the word a sin.

Finnish forces, under the leadership of general Hjalmar Siilasvuo, struck aggressively in August 1944 by making a landfall at Tornio.

The KV's heavy armour proved highly resistant to Finnish anti-tank weapons, making it more difficult to stop.

The Centre Party was a key player in making the decision to apply for Finnish EU membership in 1992.

The first popular hip-hop band to break the taboo of making rap lyrics in Finnish ( rapping in Finnish was not regarded as serious business because the first artists to do this in the early ' 90s such as Raptori, Nikke T and Pääkköset were humorous project and were popular mostly among children ) was Fintelligens arguably one of the most successful hip hop bands in Finland.

In Finland, juniper is used as a key ingredient in making sahti, a traditional Finnish ale.

At the time, Finland was still a part of Russia, and although there was a separate Finnish team at the Olympics, the Russian flag was raised for Kolehmainen's victories, making him say that he " almost wished he hadn't won ".

On 20 April 2011, Litmanen signed a one-year contract with the reigning Finnish champions, HJK, at the age of 40, making him one of a few players to play at a professional level in four different decades ( 80's, 90's, 00's and 10's ).

The 7. 62 UKM was developed by Michael Uekötter and was C. I. P .- certified in 2002, making it an officially registered and sanctioned member of the Finnish " family " of super magnum rifle cartridges.

While the German advance stalled, the Finnish 3rd Division in the south was making good progress.

Johansson auditioned for Dream Theater after Kevin Moore left the band in 1994 but due to many delays by the band in making a decision he instead joined Finnish Power metal band Stratovarius.

By September 2007, The Dudesons Season 1 had been shown in 22 countries around the world, making it the most wide spread Finnish TV-series of all time.

The Nenets languages are classified in the Uralic language family, making them distantly related to some European national languages – namely Finnish, Estonian, and Hungarian – in addition to other minority languages spoken in Russia.

The Yooper dialect is also influenced by the Finnish language making it similar in character to the so-called " Rayncher speek " of the Mesabi Iron Range in northeast Minnesota.

The group raps exclusively in Finnish, using a lot of Helsinki slang vocabulary, making it rather difficult for non-speakers to understand the lyrics.

SKVR is today available on internet making the exploration of Finnish mythology a lot easier than earlier.

In September 1944, as Finland was making a separate peace with the Soviet Union, Hitler authorized the creation of a new Finnish volunteer formation to carry on the legacy of the 27.

Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning, a Finnish feature-length spoof of both Star Trek and Babylon 5, attracted over 4 million downloads and has been released on DVD in several countries, making it possibly the most successful Finnish movie-production to date.