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Finn

Finn

1 3.3
A person from Finland
  • noun
  • /fɪn/
translation icon : finlandés
  • Many Finns enjoy celebrating Midsummer with traditional songs and dances.

Two kinds of belligerent Russians let's Finns, Estonians and Lithuanians.

Examples

  • You Finns just cannot compete in the global industries.

    Blog text (19)
  • Finns, recognizing something familiar in the landscape, built them at the turn of the century, and they're still beautiful things, even from the air.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • And the next morning, I had hundreds of Facebook friend requests from Indonesians and Finns, mostly saying, Admiral, we heard you need a friend.

  • Finns have had large communities in southern Spain around Torremolinos since the 70s.

    Blog text (34)
  • Finns are not Scandi, except for the ones that are ethnic Swedes.

    Blog text (23)
  • Finns are culturally similar to Estonians; both languages belong to the Finno-Ugric language group and are unlike most other European languages.

    Academic text (2001)
  • And they're thinking because they're the Finns in particular, their traditional posture has been of strict neutrality.

  • Finns do eat some rice, though, usually a shorter grain rice cooked down into a semi-risotto, pudding-like state with a bunch of butter and salt.

    Blog text (2)
  • In Finland, Finns often prefer to spend time in nature during their holidays.

  • The Finns have unique customs such as the sauna culture that is central to their social life.

Compounds

1 9.9

A drink secretly given to make someone unconscious

Surface Forms

Finn singular
Finns plural

Etymology

Finn comes from the name Finland, which came from an old Scandinavian word for the people who lived there. So a Finn is simply a person from Finland.