Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to Finland or its people, language, or culture.
- noun The Finno-Ugric language of the Finns.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Finland or its inhabitants, or the Finnic race.
- noun The language spoken by the Finns proper, called by themselves Suomi.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Finland, to the Finns, or to their language.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Of or pertaining to
Finland . - adjective Of or pertaining to the Finnish language.
- proper noun The Finno-Ugric
language spoken by the majority of the people living inFinland , one of the two official languages of the country (the other is Swedish).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to or characteristic of Finland or the people of Finland
- noun the official language of Finland; belongs to the Baltic Finnic family of languages
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Examples
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The word for baptism in Finnish is kaste (which also means morning dew).
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If you gave the blacks the test in Finnish, and the whites in English that would do it.
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Firstly the Kuvastaja award, which is for fantasy written originally in Finnish, went to Nainen ja Kuningas (The Woman and The King) by Anni Nupponen.
Science Fiction Awards Watch » Blog Archive » News from Finland 2009
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According to another article (also in Finnish), the data was stored in plain text format, which is quite incredible for a site that big.
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Sure, it's in Finnish, so I can't actually read his words, but the pictures are pure gold.
Adventures of a Couch-Hopping Scribbler Part 3: Hail, Helsinki! Hal Duncan 2010
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Tried to run the service in Finnish, but got this message: F-Secure Health Check on jo käynnissä.
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Bad covers would be most fantasy covers in Finnish, oh the Harry Potter ones are horrific.
Countdown to Branded By Fire: 2 days to go! Nalini Singh 2009
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Via Tero Ykspetäjä we learn that The Road (Tie in Finnish) by Cormac McCarthy has won the Tähtivaeltaja Award, presented by the Helsinki Science Fiction Society for the best science fiction novel of 2008.
McCarthy Wins Tähtivaeltaja Award sfawardswatch 2009
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Sure, it's in Finnish, so I can't actually read his words, but the pictures are pure gold.
Archive 2010-06-01 Hal Duncan 2010
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Firstly the Kuvastaja award, which is for fantasy written originally in Finnish, went to Nainen ja Kuningas (The Woman and The King) by Anni Nupponen.
News from Finland sfawardswatch 2009
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