Finnish for hello.
“Hyvää päivää!” means “Good day!”, and is pronounced something like “Hu-va pie-va!”, as far as I can work out.
It’s quite formal, so if I ever meet a Finn in a social setting, I shall instead say “Hei!” (pronounced “Hay!”), or “Terve!” (pronounced Tehr-veh!”) – both of which seem to mean “Hi!”.
Hu-va is right. The second part is pah-va.
I’m really glad to see how to spell this common Finnish word. Thank you.