Finnish translation services

Finnish translation is priced per word for text and per minute for audiovisual, depending on volume, subject matter and turnaround, with agreeing how your names inflect included as part of the brief rather than billed as an extra step. Send your files and we will come back with a free, itemised quote, backed by our Price Match Promise.

Yes. Native Finnish linguists handle every translation, and a second native linguist independently reviews each text, checking among other things that brand names and terminology inflect the same way in every file rather than drifting between episodes or between suppliers.

Yes — Finnish translation, subtitling and voice over all come from one team, working to a single glossary throughout. That matters more in Finnish than in most languages, because the glossary has to carry inflected forms and those forms need to match between the subtitle file and the recorded script.

Because Finnish marks grammar inside the word. Where English says *on Netflix* or *from Netflix*, Finnish attaches the ending to the name itself. It is not a typo and not a liberty taken with your brand: it is the only way the name can appear in a Finnish sentence at all.

You can, and it is worth talking through first. Keeping a name in its plain form in running Finnish text reads as broken rather than as protected, so the usual answer is to agree the inflected forms in advance and sign those off, which gives legal and marketing the same control over a list that actually matches what appears on screen.

Yes — audiovisual is our specialisation. We deliver spotted SRT/VTT and timed two-column voice-over scripts, plus translated text when you need it.

By how the name is pronounced in Finnish, which is the rule Kotus sets out rather than something a translator invents. A name whose final consonant is pronounced takes an inserted vowel; one whose final letters are silent takes an apostrophe. Because it depends on pronunciation, it is a decision worth making once and recording.

The Finnish quality recommendations, signed by the national broadcaster and by Kotus, work to 12 to 14 characters per second, 10 to 12 for children's content, and a minimum of 1.8 seconds on screen. They deliberately measure characters rather than words, because Finnish word length varies too much for a word count to be useful.

Most short documents are delivered within 24 to 48 hours. Word count, subject complexity and turnaround all move the date, and your project manager will confirm the timeline at the start.

Less than people expect: the document, script or subtitle file, its word count, what the text is actually for, and the date you need it by. A draft is fine — we would rather quote on what exists than wait for a final version that eats your deadline. A named project manager comes back with an itemised quote, normally within four working hours.

More than half of enquiries get a reply within thirty minutes during office hours (Monday to Friday, 9am to 6pm UK time), and the itemised quote normally follows within four working hours. After that you have one dedicated project manager who owns the job from brief to final file — not a ticket queue, and not a different name on every email. If it is easier, call +44 207 095 5730 and ask for them by name.

Yes, and it is one of the commonest reasons people get in touch. Tell us it is for a pitch and you get a figure you can put in front of your own client, itemised so it stands up to being picked apart, with no obligation and no follow-up sales calls if the pitch goes elsewhere. If it lands, the quote still holds and we already know the project.