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Porrastuvat

11:03 Aug 20, 2002
Finnish to English translations [Non-PRO]
Games / Video Games / Gaming / Casino / games
Finnish term or phrase: Porrastuvat
is the name of a game
jeannette


Summary of answers provided
5Something that is able to be scaled or graded. Or porch cottages.
venelvi
5Porrasturvat - Stair Dismount
Panu Koponen
1Snakes and Ladders
Anu Carroll


  

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Snakes and Ladders


Explanation:
Wild guess, a board game. Any more clues from the context?


    Reference: http://www.fundexgames.com/games/2660.html
Anu Carroll
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Something that is able to be scaled or graded. Or porch cottages.


Explanation:
Porras = porch
tuvat = cottages

But

This is also bent of verb 'porrastaa' which means 'scale' or 'grade'.

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Porrasturvat - Stair Dismount


Explanation:
An underground hit computer game from Assembly 2002, the Finnish name meaning "stair muzzles/stair faces" from the slang word "turpa" (muzzle) meaning "face".

(Better late than never, they say. I hope answering five years late is not too much of a policy breaker.)


    Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stair_Dismount
Panu Koponen
Finland
Local time: 16:04
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Native speaker of: Native in FinnishFinnish
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