English Finnish Dictionary
Free offline English-Finnish dictionary. Look up words and phrases instantly without internet. Great for Finnish learners and travelers to Finland.
Key Features
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Look up Finnish words anytime, anywhere — no internet connection needed.
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Android & iOS
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Comprehensive
Thousands of words and phrases covering everyday vocabulary and more.
Bidirectional
Search from English to Finnish or Finnish to English seamlessly.
About English Finnish Dictionary
A reliable English-Finnish and Finnish-English offline dictionary for anyone learning Finnish or traveling to Finland. Finnish is known for its unique grammar, making a good dictionary essential for learners.
About Finnish
Finnish is spoken by about 5.4 million people and is the official language of Finland. Unlike most European languages, Finnish belongs to the Uralic language family and has a unique grammatical structure with 15 noun cases.
Who is this app for? Finnish learners, travelers to Finland, students, expats.
Fifteen cases and no future tense
Finnish is Uralic, unrelated to the Indo-European languages around it, and it does several things differently enough to be disorienting at first.
There are fifteen cases, which as in Hungarian mostly replace prepositions. There are no articles at all — no equivalent of "a" or "the". There is no grammatical gender, and the pronoun hän covers he and she alike. And there is no future tense: Finnish uses the present and lets context or a time word carry the future, much as English does in "the train leaves at six".
Consonant gradation changes the stem
This is the feature that makes dictionary lookup a skill. Finnish consonants alternate systematically as endings are added, so the stem you meet is often not the stem you search for. Katu (street) becomes kadun in the genitive; kukka (flower) becomes kukan; tupakka becomes tupakan.
The alternation is regular once learned — k, p and t weaken in predictable environments — but until it is, a learner reading real Finnish will frequently fail to find a word that is definitely in the dictionary.
The compensations
Spelling is very nearly perfectly phonemic: one letter, one sound, and stress is always on the first syllable. Vowel and consonant length are written by doubling and are always meaningful — tuli (fire), tuuli (wind) and tulli (customs) are three words distinguished only by length.
Finnish has around 5.4 million speakers and is an official language of Finland and of the European Union.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why can I not find a Finnish word I definitely saw?
Almost certainly consonant gradation. Finnish stems alternate as endings are added — katu becomes kadun, kukka becomes kukan — so the form in the text differs from the dictionary form. Learning the gradation patterns is what fixes this.
Does Finnish have a future tense?
No. The present tense covers future meaning, with context or a time expression doing the work, in the same way English says the train leaves at six. There is also no grammatical gender and no articles.
Is Finnish spelling regular?
Almost perfectly. One letter corresponds to one sound and stress is always on the first syllable. Doubled letters mark genuine length and always change meaning — tuli, tuuli and tulli are three separate words.
Is Finnish related to Swedish or Russian?
No. Finnish is Uralic, related to Estonian and more distantly to Hungarian, and is not an Indo-European language at all despite Finland's geography and its long historical contact with Swedish.
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