Category: Finnish language

last update:Aug112025March 4, 2023August 11, 202529Commentsby Santiago H

Finnish swearwords – a list of profanities you shouldn’t know

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Last week we had the day of the Finnish culture and Kalevala, and in a month or so (9th of April) there will be the day of the Finnish language. Let’s celebrate these days with some Finnish words – but some that are a bit polemic: swearwords in Finnish. This porcupine swears a lot in Finnish: it is a character in a Finnish comic strip….

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last update:Mar312023February 16, 2021March 31, 20235Commentsby Santiago H

The 40 words for “snow” in Finnish

Posted in Finnish language, Interesting facts, Lapland

How many times have I heard the story of country X – or population X – that has 40 words (or more) for “snow”? Most of them said that the Sami people – indigenous population of the Nordic and Scandinavian countries – was the population with the most words for the white-falling element. It is true that there are 40 words for “snow” in Eskimo,…

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last update:Jun102021January 12, 2021June 10, 20215Commentsby Santiago H

Finnish in Duolingo: the Finnish course comes to the app

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Finally: Duolingo has added the Finnish course to its language app (if you, like many people, are unsure about the name of the language VS the people we recommend you check out the post “Is it Finn or Finnish?“). And I, as a regular user of this language learning app, have set out to tell you about it in this post. If you don’t have…

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last update:Aug132019November 11, 2014August 13, 2019Go tocommentsby Santiago H

Most frequent Finnish words

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It is widely known that the most important thing for learning a language is the method you use. A method that will take you the farthest in the minimum amount of time is learning the most frequent words of a language. To help with that for the Finnish language, here it comes: the list with the most frequent Finnish words. This list was compiled by…

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