Venla
Phonetics
Pronunciation
One helpful thing when studying Finnish is the regular pronunciation: Finnish is almost always pronounced as it's written.
Click an example to listen it.
| |Sound| | |Finnish example| | |sound in English| |
| a | auto | car |
| b | ||
| c | ||
| d | sydän | David |
| e | esine | egg |
| f | ||
| g | gaselli | gate |
| h | hevonen | hello! |
| i | iso | wit |
| j | jano | young |
| k | kivi | key |
| l | lapsi | lip |
| m | mies | man |
| n | nainen | nail |
| o | osata | four |
| p | pelata | pool |
| q | ||
| r | ruma | roof |
| s | saada | soap |
| t | tie | tear |
| u | uida | blue |
| v | vaja | verb |
| w | ||
| x | ||
| y | ystävä | like /i/, but lower |
| ä | äiti | cat |
| ö | öljy | like /e/, but lower |
Notes:
- Stress is always on first syllable.
- Finnish is pronounced like it's written, nothing sould be left out.
- nk is pronounced
, like in lanka.
ng is pronounced double like in langat
Diphtongs
ai, ei, oi, ui, yi, äi , öi, au, eu, iu, ou, äy, öy, ie, uo, yö