Language/Finnish

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Facts about Finnish

Finnish is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedish). In Sweden, both Finnish and Meänkieli are official minority languages.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language

• Language code (ISO 639-3): fin

• Autonyms (how to write "Finnish" in Finnish): suomen kieli / suomi

• Other names for "Finnish": Suomi, Finska

• The Finnish language is spoken in: Finland

Finnish Dictionaries

• Kielitoimiston sanakirja: Finnish dictionary, declension

• SuomiEnglantiSanakirja: Finnish-English dictionary

• Lingea: Finnish-English dictionary & multilingual

• DictionaryPro: Finnish-English dictionary & multilingual

• FinnHun: Finnish-Hungarian-English dictionary

• Iate: multilingual terminological dictionary (European Union)

• FinseTaal: Finnish-Dutch dictionary

• Finnish etymological dictionary by András Rajki (2009)

• Loecsen: Finnish-English common phrases (+ audio)

• Goethe-Verlag: Finnish-English common phrases & illustrated vocabulary (+ audio)

• Tavantaan taas !: Finnish basic vocabulary & phrases (+ audio)

• Kai's pages: pronunciation of the Finnish names (+ audio)

• Tatoeba: sentences in Finnish, with translation (audio)

• English and Finnish Dictionary by Karl Vilhelm Arminen (1914)

• Suomalais-englantilainen sanakirja: Finnish-English dictionary by Severi Alanne (1919)

• Suomalais-ranskalainen sanakirja: Finnish-French dictionary by Eino Sakari Yrjö-Koskinen (1900)

• Dictionnaire français-finnois: French-Finnish dictionary by Agathon Meurman (1877)

• Suomalais-ruotsalainen sanakirja: Finnish-Swedish dictionary by Knut Cannelin (1913)

• Svensk-finsk ordbok: Swedish-Finnish & Finnish-Swedih dictionary, by Ferdinand Ahlman (1883)

• Latinais-suomalainen sanakirja: Latin-Finish dictionary by Frans Wilhelm Rothsten (1864)

• Suomalainen sana-kirja, Lexicon linguæ finnicæ: Finnish-Latin-German dictionary by Gustaf Renvall (1826)

• Etymology of Finnish sauna by Petri Kallio (2008)

• The words and worlds of Kalevala: Finnish lexical loans in Modern English by Olga Timofeeva, in Ex philologia lux (2013)

• Finnish house names and their connection with surnames by Laila Lehikoinen, in Onomastica uralica (2005)

• Saami loanwords in Finnish and Karelian by Ante Aikio (2009)

• Quantifying loanwords: a study of borrowability in the Finnish lexicon, by Sandra Cronhamn, mémoire (2018)

• Sources: https://www.lexilogos.com/english/finnish_dictionary.htm

Free Finnish Lessons

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• Vocabulary Lessons

• Pronunciation Lessons

• Culture Lessons

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Last Lessons

Finnish Music — Relationships — Finnish Literature — Family Members — Subordinate Clauses — Conjunctions — Weather Vocabulary — Postpositions — Holidays and Celebrations — Travel Phrases — Modes of Transportation — Dining Out — Food Vocabulary — Hobbies and Leisure — Numbers 1 20 — Forming Questions — Daily Routine — Telling Time — Adjective Agreement — Noun Cases — Introducing Yourself — Basic Greetings — Basic Sentence Structure — Alphabet and Pronunciation — Finnish Traditional Crafts — Finnish Folk Music and Dance — Finnish Mythology and Legends — Sami and Karelian Languages — Regional Finnish Dialects — Finnish Film Industry