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🇫🇮 Finland (country) 🗣️ Finnish language
Suomi

Suomi

9.6
The Finnish language spoken by most people in Finland
  • noun
  • /ˈsuːoʊmi/
translation icon : finés
  • Many people in Finland speak Suomi as their first language.

Examples

  • The signs in Helsinki are written in both Swedish and Suomi.

  • She decided to learn Suomi before moving to Helsinki for work.

  • I love Suomi!

  • Suomi is beautiful.

  • Many people in Finland speak Suomi as their first language.

  • She decided to learn Suomi before moving to Helsinki for work.

  • The signs in Helsinki are written in both Swedish and Suomi.

Synonyms

Finnish
vsSuomi
4 6.3

The language spoken in Finland

specifies it belongs to the narrower Baltic Finnic branch of Uralic

Surface Forms

Suomi singular
Suomis plural

Etymology

Suomi also means the Finnish language, so when Finns say Suomi they can mean both the country and the language. One simple way to remember this is that the same old word for the land became the name for the people and their speech, which is why Suomi means the language today.