elinpäivää
elinpäivää is a Finnish greeting. It is a compound word formed from "elin" and "päivää". "Elin" means "living" or "life", and "päivää" is the partitive case of "päivä", meaning "day". Thus, the literal translation of elinpäivää is "living day".
The phrase is used as a greeting, similar to "Good day" in English or "Bonjour" in French.
The context in which elinpäivää is used is typically during daylight hours. It is not generally used