Can Swedes understand Finnish?

Can Swedes understand Finnish?

They are Scandinavian languages. The language of Finland belongs to a different family. Finnish is close to Estonian and Hungarian. Most people in Finland know Swedish, so the Finns can understand the Swedes, but most Swedes cannot understand Finnish.

Is Finnish closest to Swedish?

Many people assume that Finnish is closely related to either Swedish or Russian, as Sweden and Russia are both important neighbouring countries. However, that is not the case. Swedish and Russian are both Indo-European languages, whereas Finnish belongs to the Finno-Ugric branch of the Uralic family of languages.

How do Finns say Finland?

“Finnish is our language and ‘Suomi’ is the word for ‘Finland’ in Finnish.

Why is Finnish so different?

The Finnish grammar and most Finnish words are very different from those in other European languages, because Finnish is not an Indo-European language. The two other national languages that are Uralic languages as Finnish are Estonian and Hungarian. Hungarian ‘menni’), ‘fish’ (Finnish ‘kala’ vs. Hungarian ‘hal’).

Are Finnish and Russian similar?

They are completely unrelated. NO. Russian belongs to the Slavic branch of the Indo-European family, whereas Finnish belongs to the Finnic branch of the Uralic family. They are completely unrelated.

Is perkele a bad word?

The people in the neighbouring countries to Finland often consider Finnish swear words harsher than their own, and even use heavily mispronounced versions of them, most notably perkele (Damn it) Native Finns tend to consider the harshness exaggerated, while others use it to their advantage.

What is the difference between Swedish and Finnish?

Swedish is a North Germanic language, while Finnish belongs to a completely different family of Finno-Ugric languages. That’s why Finland isn’t considered to be a Scandinavian country, despite the geographic and historic closeness to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden.

What language is similar to Swedish?

Swedish — Sweden’s national language and one of Finland’s national language — and Danish are written in a similar manner. If Swedish, Danish and Norwegian were sisters, Swedish would be the eldest of them all.

What languages are similar to the Finnish language?

9 Answers. Quora User, Speaks Serbian and English. Norwegian and Swedish are similar (though not mutually intelligible) and Finnish is not similar to either one. They belong to the Germanic family and specifically, to the Northern Germanic branch (along with Danish, Icelandic and Faroese, the latter two being Insular).

What are the similarities between Danish Norwegian and Swedish?

Danish, Norwegian and Swedish are very similar because Norway was ruled by Denmark from the 14 th to 19 th century. Let’s look at each Nordic language below: Swedish is spoken by the most people amongst all the five Nordic languages – 10 million people.