Finnish is spoken by over 5 million people in Finland, Sweden, and Russia. This handy bilingual dictionary is the perfect companion for both travelers and students. It features over 6,000 entries of completely modern and up-to-date vocabulary. It also includes a handy glossary of menu terms.
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46 of 47 people found the following review helpful
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Format:Paperback
Lots of words, but it's apparantly written as an English dictionary for Finnish speakers. It lacks expanaitions for words with more than one meaning. For example, the word "right" it does not state which Finnish word means "correct", "right-hand side" or rights such as human rights. Small type, hard to tell l's and i'sapart from each other. If you need a good Finnish-English dictionary, don't get this one.
By Cadnoess
Format:Paperback
Lacks a lot of Finnish words or meanings- I've been annotating mine as I go along. Written for Finns, so the abbreviations of grammatical terms (eg telling you if it's a verb or noun etc) are in Finnish. I do use it, but it's not easy.
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Ludicrous
10 Aug 2002
By "lornminorlas"
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Format:Paperback
Although this book has a good number of Finnish words and is not unuseful if it's the only option you can find, it's greatest value for me is its entertainment value. Along with amusing misprints that will have you wondering what the word "lizarp" means in either language, the lack of specificity about word meanings in both sections causes the reader to constantly flip back and forth to try to construct an educated guess about which word he or she is looking for when under "knot" it gives only a list of five finnish nouns and one verb with no further explanation (other than the differentiation between commas and semicolons). This dictionary's egregiousness (and perhaps it's humorous uses as well) are most obvious when one tries to use it in communicating with native Finnish speakers, as I did in my first year class last year (this was the dictionary which they made available). With alarming frequency my teacher had no idea what I was trying to say and when I explained, she had to correct the dictionary on many occasions. So I wouldn't really recommend the purchase of this book unless you're looking for a few laughs and bad finnish.
20 of 23 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
one of the best hand-sized dictionaries I've seen.
15 Oct 1999
By Liam Sauer-wooden
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Format:Paperback
This dictionary, though hand sized, contains a surprisingly large number of words plus gramatical forms (which are very helpful to those learning a language), tough it does not contain lessions in grammar per se. Its cross referencing is excellent.
10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
A vague idea of the language
8 Nov 2001
By John Marsh
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Format:Paperback
Hippocrene has published a large number of cheap editions of bilingual dictionaries. They are cheap to produce but this one takes the cake. Sure, it has 6000 entries but at the same time it will completely frustrate the beginning language learner. Why? The editors have completely misunderstood the agglutinive nature of the language. Instead of listing a header with various combinations derived therefrom, they insist that all words are basically incapable of being linked together. Earlier versions of Finnish-English dictionaries by W. Soy in Finland are worth looking into.
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