kyllä koira koiran tuntee

Finnish

Etymology

A variant can be found in Henrik Florinus: Wanhain suomalaisten tawaliset ja suloiset sananlascut ("The Proper and Graceful Proverbs of the Old Finns", 1702): Kyllaͤ coira weljens tunde.

Proverb

kyllä koira koiran tuntee (literally, “a dog will know a dog”)

  1. it takes one to know one.

Usage notes

  • The word koira can be replaced with another word to create more variants, such as tyhmä for kyllä tyhmä tyhmän tuntee (literally “a stupid person will know a stupid person”).
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