Need a Finnish translation? There Are 9 Things About The Finnish Language Translation

 Are you working with a Finnish translation agency that is too slow, too expensive, or both? Danish along with Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian translation are known to be expensive languages to translate.

To give you a hint of what a Finnish language translator should take into account, we have listed the 9 things you didn’t know about Finnish.

1. The language is gender neutral

Did you learn Spanish or French at school? You may recall that nouns in these languages have a gender. Was it “le mujer” or “la mujer”? Don’t worry about this in Finnish as every pronoun is gender-neutral. “Hän” can mean both “he” and “she”.

2. Some of the letters are seldom used

The Finnish writing system consists of 29 letters, but not all of them are used on a steady basis. Finnish contains mostly vowels and has, in addition to y, u, o, i, e, and a, also the vowels ö, ä, and å. The “å” only follows in Swedish loan words. Z, c, w, q, f, c, b only occur in loan words and “d” and “g” are not common in the Finnish language either.

3. There is no future tense

The future tense does not occur in Finnish. You just use the give directions and present tense in the sentence. Such as “nyt” (now), “huomenna” (tomorrow), and “tänään” (today).

4. The Finns indeed take it too literally

Many Finnish words have been translated very accurately. Dice are “lottery cubes” (arpakuutiot), a computer is a “knowledge machine” (tietokone) and a refrigerator is an “ice cabinet” (jääkaappi).

5. One Finnish word says more than… eh, many other words

The Finns are not only very content, they are also very effective. One Finnish word can reveal a whole sentence.

6. “Please” does not exist

In Finnish language, the word Please does not exist. If the state calls for something like that, they say “kiitos” – which means “thank you”.

7. There is one Finnish word we use globally

That Finnish sauna? It’s called that way for a reason. In other languages, it is also written as “sauna”. One of the few words that even made it into English.

8. You pronounce it accurately as you write it

You track the risk of saying something completely diverse if you pronounce it wrongly. And by leaving out definite punctuation marks, you could change the meaning of the total sentence.

9. The longest Finnish word has 61 letters

Finnish is made up of many complex words; two or more words put together to form a new word with an entire fresh meaning.

Wrapping up

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