Finnish (suomi)

Finnish (fi, fin) is a world language. Wikidata records about 5.4M speakers. It is written in Latin script. It is an official language in 2 countries, including Finland and Russian Empire.

Finnish has 15 grammatical cases and no grammatical gender. Agglutination makes strings much longer and variables hard to inflect.

Expect text translated from English into Finnish to grow by roughly 25–40%, which matters for layouts, subtitles and page counts.

Translation guides

• English → Finnish translation
• Finnish → English translation

Where Finnish is official

• Finland
• Russian Empire

Rates for Finnish translation

Finnish falls in our nordic & dutch band: roughly $0.12–$0.24 per word for general commercial work. These are indicative ranges, not quotes — specialised, certified and rush work costs more, and literary translation is usually priced per 1,000 words.

For context, the median salaried translator or interpreter in the US earned $60,170 in May 2025 (BLS). See salaries by state →