älä nylje karhua ennen kuin se on kaadettu

Finnish

Etymology

älä (“don't”) nylje (“skin”) karhua (“a bear”) ennen kuin (“before”) se (“it”) on kaadettu (“has been killed”); a similar proverb referring to a bear and its skin exists at least in Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Russian, Polish, Dutch, Hungarian, French and Spanish

Proverb

älä nylje karhua ennen kuin se on kaadettu

1. don't count your chickens before they're hatched (you should not count on something before it happens)