Language resources and useful links for Finnish

Our translators' pick of useful sites for Finnish terminology, including public-service sites for terms used in context. 

 

National websites

Finnish institutional sites

• Constitution
• Edilex — Finnish legal data base
• FINLEX (Finnish Legal Database)
• Finnish government (Valtioneuvosto)
• Finnish law — US Library of Congress guide
• Supreme Administrative Court (Korkein hallinto-oikeus)
• Supreme Court (Korkein oikeus)
• Legal System
• NATLEX — legislation (labour, social security and related human rights)
• Penal Code
• Bank of Finland (Suomen Pankki)

Other links from Finland

• Association of Finnish Municipalities (Suomen Kuntaliitto)
• Centre for Statistics
• Finnish Standards Institute (Suomen Standardoimisliitto)
• Virtual Library (Makupalat)
• UN Association in Finland (YK-liitto)
• Finnish Game and Fisheries Research Institute (RKTL)
• Finavia (Ilmailulaitos)
• Finnish Customs (Tullihallitus)
• Finnish National Board of Education (Opetushallitus)

Libraries

• National Library — Helsinki University

 

 

Style and grammar guides, language campaigns

• Research Institute for the Languages of Finland (Kotus)
• Finnish grammar database
• How to write clearly — European Commission booklet (all EU languages) [March 2010]
• See also the style guides for our contractors
  

 

Online dictionaries, term banks and glossaries

Bilingual dictionaries

• English-Finnish dictionary
• Finnish-English dictionary

Term banks & glossaries

• Finnish government termbank (Valter)
• Finnish food composition database (Fineli)
• Environment glossary (EEA)
• Civil and commercial law glossary
• EURYDICE — European education thesaurus
• Glossaries by language
• Statistics — multilingual glossary by the International Statistical Institute (ISI)
• Terminology database — French, German, English and Dutch
• Terminology forum — Nordic language forum
• Finnish Centre for Technical Terminology (TSK)