Finnish Translation Services

Into Finnish (Suomi), from English, Chinese and other European and Asian source languages.

Asiatis Singapore translates into Finnish from English, Chinese and other source languages, using native Finnish linguists. Finnish is structurally unlike the Scandinavian languages and demands specialist linguists; Finland is an EU Member State with strong technology and forestry industries.

Language family: Finnic (Uralic)
Native name: Suomi
Typical expansion vs English: +20% to +30%

Status. One of the two official languages of Finland and an official language of the European Union. Finnish is Uralic, unrelated to its Scandinavian neighbours.

Variants. Finland is officially bilingual (Finnish and Swedish); some markets and public documents require both. We can pair Finnish with Finland Swedish where needed.

What we translate into Finnish

Technology & telecoms

Finland has a deep technology and telecoms base; software, interface and documentation work is core demand.

Forestry & paper

Technical and export documentation for a sector where Finland is a world leader.

Machinery & industrial

Manuals and safety instructions that must meet EU machinery and CE requirements.

Cleantech & energy

Documentation for a market investing heavily in sustainable technology.

Designing for Finnish

Finnish is agglutinative and produces long single words that are hard to hyphenate — plan wider layouts and test line breaking.

Text expansion reference

Why Asiatis for Finnish

Your target language is produced by in-country native linguists and managed from our European desk — in the same working culture as the people who will read it, not sub-contracted blindly from Asia.

Documents we handle

Software and interface strings
Machinery and equipment manuals
Technical and export documentation
Contracts and tenders
Product labelling and packaging

Finnish translation — frequently asked questions

Finnish is Uralic, not Germanic, and shares almost nothing structurally with Swedish, Norwegian or Danish. It is agglutinative, with long words and complex inflection, so a Scandinavian linguist cannot substitute. We use native Finnish specialists.

Running prose typically expands about 20 to 30% from English, and Finnish forms very long single words that resist hyphenation. Narrow columns, tables and buttons need extra room; short UI strings expand the most.

Yes. English into Finnish and Chinese into Finnish are standard pairs, along with other European source languages. Finnish is always a target language, produced by native Finnish linguists.

Related European languages

Swedish Danish Norwegian All 30+ European languages

Get a quote for Finnish translation

Send us your document and target market. We reply within 2 business hours, with a native Finnish linguist assigned to your project.