Finnish Translations
POZENA’s professional human translations from Finnish to English and any other language or from English and any language into Finnish are reliably performed by formally qualified native-speaking translators, assuring their consistently high quality.
Why choose professional Finnish translations?
- Finnish is spoken as the first language by approximately 5.4 million people (around 0.08% of the world’s population) and ranks outside the top 100 most spoken languages by native speakers.
- Suomi has official status in Finland. It is recognized as a minority language in Sweden and the Republic of Karelia in north-western Russia.
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Professional Human Finnish Translations | Regular Translations | Express Translations | Certified Translations | Specialist Subject Translations |
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net base rates per word of translation, GBP | ||||
Translations from English to Finnish | from GBP 0.08 | we do not charge extra for express translation | individual project pricing upon content analysis | individual project pricing upon content analysis |
Translations from Finnish to English | from GBP 0.09 | |||
Translations from Finnish to Another Language | from GBP 0.08 | |||
Translations from Another Language to Finnish | from GBP 0.09 | |||
Reviewed Translation (ISO17100 compliant) | from +50% of base rate | |||
DTP Fees | from GBP 10 per page / GBP 30 per hour |
POZENA’s professional Finnish translations
- Assurance of professional quality
- Business-class reliability
- Translators who are native-speakers of Finnish
- Translations for a broad range of industries and disciplines
- Document translations of any type and format
- Certified Finnish translations
- Specialist translations and non-standard requirements
- Translations from Finnish to English or any other language
- Friendly and professional client service
- Contact POZENA to discuss any multilingial project
Finnish – basic information
- Finnish is a member of the Finno-Ugric group, which is a branch of the Uralic language family. It was not until the modern era that this language started to develop more rapidly (earlier it had been used only in speech). A key role in regulating the orthographic norms for Finnish was played by bishop Mikael Agricola, who translated religious texts, and in 1543 he wrote Abckiria (the ABC book), the first book published in the Finnish language.
- Suomi is a language with high dialectal variation. There are three major groups of dialects: northern, western and eastern. The greatest differences are found in pronunciation, and – to a smaller extent – at the level of lexis. The official standard and spoken colloquial Finnish, which is based on the Helsinki dialect, also vary considerably. The norms of Finnish are regulated by the Institute of the Languages of Finland, which deals with the standardization of all languages spoken in Finland.
- Finnish is one of the EU’s official languages.
Specialist industry translations from and into Finnish
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-Finnish mini dictionary
yes - kyllä
no - ei
please - saanko
thank you - kiitos
sorry - anteeksi
good morning - hyvää huomenta
good evening - hyvää iltaa
goodbye - näkemiin
good night - hyvää yötä
hi - hei/terve/moi
How are you? - Mitä sinulle kuuluu?
good - hyvää
My name is… - Minun nimeni on…
I don't understand - En ymmärrä
I'm from the UK - Olen kotoisin Britanniassa
Interesting facts
- Finnish 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. For example, the English equivalent of the Finnish word vaimollenikin is the phrase ‘also to my wife’.
- Another interesting feature of Finnish grammar is 15 noun cases. There is no grammatical gender, though. Finnish has just a single third person singular pronoun hän for he and she.
- Word stress in Finnish is fixed and usually falls on the first syllable.
- The longest Finnish word is the 61-letter noun lentokone-suihkuturbiinimoottoriapumekaanikkoaliupseerioppilas, whose meaning is ‘airplane jet turbine engine auxiliary mechanic non-commissioned officer student’.
- As regards the Finnish writing system, the letter å occurs only in Swedish loanwords. Interestingly, the letter appeared as a major element on a campaign logo against mandatory Swedish in Finnish schools (Swedish also holds official status in Finland).