Estonian Translations
POZENA’s professional human translations from Estonian to English and any other language or from English and any language into Estonian are reliably performed by formally qualified native-speaking translators, assuring their consistently high quality.
Why choose professional Estonian translations?
- Estonian is the native language of around 1.2 million people (around 0.015% of the world’s population).
- Estonian is the official language of Estonia. It is also spoken as a native language by small Estonian minorities in Sweden, Finland, Germany, Latvia and a few other countries.
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| Professional Human Estonian Translations | Regular Translations | Express Translations | Certified Translations | Specialist Subject Translations |
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| Translations from English to Estonian | we do not charge extra for express translation | individual project pricing upon content analysis | individual project pricing upon content analysis | |
| Translations from Estonian to English | ||||
| Translations from Estonian to Another Language | ||||
| Translations from Another Language to Estonian | ||||
| Reviewed Translation (ISO17100 compliant) | from +50% of base rate | |||
| DTP Fees | ||||
POZENA’s professional Estonian translations
- Assurance of professional quality
- Business-class reliability
- Translators who are native-speakers of Estonian
- Translations for a broad range of industries and disciplines
- Document translations of any type and format
- Certified Estonian translations
- Specialist translations and non-standard requirements
- Translations from Estonian to English or any other language
- Friendly and professional client service
- Contact POZENA to discuss any multilingial project
Estonian – basic information
- Eesti keel is a member of the Finno-Ugric group, which is a branch of the Uralic language family. As a separate entity, the Estonian language began to emerge in the 12th-13th centuries (the oldest written records date to this period) as a mixture of a few Baltic-Finnic languages (of all modern languages, it is most closely related to Finnish). In the later stages of its development, Estonian was influenced lexically by the Baltic, Slavic and, primarily, Germanic languages (ca. 30% of Estonian vocabulary is of Germanic origin). In the latter half of the 19th century, the present orthographic norms, based on Finnish orthography, were adopted.
- Modern Estonian is divided into two major dialect groups: the north and south dialects, which exhibit significant differences. The north group includes the central dialect, which gave rise to the standard variety of Estonian. Eesti keel is now regulated by the Tallinn-based Institute of the Estonian Language.
- Estonian is one of the official languages of the European Union.
Specialist industry translations from and into Estonian
Certified translations
Legal translations
Translations for the energy sector
Military translations
Business translations
Marketing translations, localisation and copywriting
Translation of agreements and power of attorney
Translations of user guides and service manuals
Basic words and phrases – English-Estonian mini dictionary
yes - jah
no - ei
please - palun
thank you - tänan/ aitäh
sorry - kahjuks
good morning - tere hommikust
good evening - tere õhtust
goodbye - head aega
good night - head ööd
hi - tere
How are you? - Kuidas läheb?
good - hästi
My name is… - Minu nimi on…
I don't understand - Ma ei saa aru
I'm from the UK - Ma olen Suurbritanniast
Interesting facts
- Estonian is an agglutinative language, in which morphemes are suffixed to word stems to form new words or word forms. Semantically, such a word corresponds to several words in most Indo-European languages.
- An excellent example of the above phenomenon is the longest Estonian word, which consists of 43 letters: sünnipäevanädalalõpupeopärastlõunaväsimatus. It means “the tiredness felt on the afternoon of the weekend birthday party”.
- There are as many as 14 noun cases in Estonian (though the actual number is the subject of dispute among researchers). However, this language does not have grammatical gender and features two tenses: present and past. Present tense forms are used to express futurity.
- Estonian consonants and vowels have three degrees of length (short, middle-long, and long) which are distinctive.
- Another interesting feature of Estonian pronunciation is the high frequency of vowels, which sometimes occur in sequences. Sample words with multiple vowels include kõueöö (Eng. thunderstorm night) and jäääär (Eng. ice edge).