Are you working witha Finnish translationagency that is too slow, too expensive, or both? Danish along with Finnish, Swedish, Norwegian translation are known to be expensive languages to translate.
Togive you a hint of what a Finnish languagetranslator should take into account, we have listed the 9things 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 inthese 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 themare 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 givedirections 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. OneFinnish word can reveal a whole sentence.
6. “Please” does not exist
In Finnish language, the word Please does not exist. If the state callsfor 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 otherlanguages, 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 youpronounce 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 togetherto form a new word with an entire fresh meaning.
Wrapping up
Acadestudiohas one of the largest teams of qualified English Finnishtranslator who specialize in our clients’ technical fieldsand highly specialized industries
