Freelang Finnish-English dictionary

Finnish translation

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Common expressions in Finnish

Hyvää syntymäpäivää! This is 'Happy birthday' in Finnish. We have several other basic expressions in Finnish and other languages, please check out our collection.

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Finnish is a Finno-Ugric language, belonging to the Uralic language family. It is one of the three national languages of Europe that is not an Indo-European language (along with Estonian and Hungarian, which also are Uralic languages). There are about 6 million speakers, mostly in Finland.

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Download our free dictionary (for Windows or Android) and browse both the Finnish-English and the English-Finnish lists. Look up a word, add or modify an entry, and learn words at your own rhythm from a personal learning list. Click here to learn more about the features or scroll down to download the program. An online version is also available, so you can browse the dictionary without downloading it.

Features of this dictionary

Download our free dictionary for Android! Browse the wordlists, look up words and practice your vocabulary at your own rhythm. An online version is also available, so you can browse the dictionary without downloading it.

Word list information

This dictionary was made by Kimmo Hämäläinen. Many thanks to Toivo Kivirinta for sending us an update.

Finnish > English: 31,145 words
English > Finnish: 28,588 words

Last update: March 21, 2014
First upload: 1997

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Finnish resources on the web

Is Finnish a difficult language? This is an interesting article, written by a lecturer in Finnish (use the menu on the right to access the different chapters). We also recommend this site with learning material for Finnish (pronunciation and grammar).