English→Finnish

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Finnish from Finland sounds like itself through clipped everyday speech, -ko questions, and idioms such as saunan päälle and kahville.

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474 local dialects

What locals actually say

Could you turn the sauna on?

Laitatko saunan päälle?

The -ko ending makes this a natural spoken request, while saunan päälle is the idiomatic way to say turning the sauna on.

Are you already home?

Ootko jo kotona?

Ootko is puhekieli, the everyday spoken form of oletko, and is normal in a casual family message.

Want to go for coffee?

Lähdetäänkö kahville?

Kahville means going out for coffee; Finnish uses the illative form here rather than translating “for coffee” word for word.

Can you send your share to my account?

Voitko laittaa oman osuutesi tililleni?

Laittaa tilille is an everyday Finnish expression for making a bank transfer, while the -lle ending marks the destination.

Is the bus stop over that way?

Onko bussipysäkki tuolla päin?

Tuolla päin uses the directional postposition päin and signals an approximate direction rather than an exact location.

Shall we add a little dill to this?

Laitetaanko tähän vielä vähän tilliä?

The passive question form laitetaan uses Finnish everyday speech for a shared suggestion, and vähän takes the partitive tilliä.

How is your mum doing?

Miten äidilläsi menee?

Mennä with the adessive äidilläsi is the Finnish construction for asking how someone is doing or how things are going for them.

I'll get this finished before lunch.

Saan tämän valmiiksi ennen lounasta.

Saada plus the translative ending in valmiiksi expresses getting something completed, a common Finnish way to describe finishing work.

Notes like these come with every AIRTranslate translation, so you learn why locals phrase it that way as you go.

Finnish. Sinä informal is the norm; kirjakieli for formal text, puhekieli colloquial forms (mä, sä, tosi) only when tone is clearly casual.

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