Welcome to FinnishTranslated
FinnishTranslated is a small company that specializes in translations from Finnish to
English and English to Finnish in the subjects of law, social science and humanities.
FinnishTranslated also specializies in editing translations of this type.
Merja Kehl, owner and operator of FinnishTranslated, was born and raised in Finland; she is bi-lingual and bi-cultural Finnish-English. Her mother tongue is Finnish.
About the Finnish Language
Finnish is one of the Finno-Ugric languages. Finnish is a richly inflected language, containing many cases. Case endings are suffixed to the word stem and are used to express the very same things that prepositions express in the Indo-European languages.
The richness of inflectional forms in Finnish is further increased since verbs are also inflected in all personal forms. The personal suffix is added to the word stem, as are the tense and the mood of a verb. Finnish words do not have gender. Both males and females are referred to with the same third person singular pronoun. Words do not have separate definite and indefinite forms, and Finnish does not use articles.
There is a clear relationship between the way a word is written and the way it is pronounced, as a certain sound corresponds to the same letter irrespective of context. Finnish words contain lots of vowels. Finnish is the only European language in which normal text contains more vowels than consonants. Vowels can be either short or long; in addition, Finnish has lots of diphthongs.
Finnish words have relatively few consonants, but nearly all of them can be used in either short or long forms. The length of a sound changes the meaning of the word.
Source: Centre for International Mobility CIMO http://www.cimo.fi