Five real spoken-Finnish sentences with audio. Hear one, pick what was said, then see the written form and exactly what changed. No account, no signup.
These are sentences people actually say, not textbook lines.
Hear five short course recordings, choose what you heard, then see the English meaning and written Finnish. Preview the phrases below, or start the ear test above without reading ahead.
Hi! I'm Anna.
Written Finnish: Hei! Minä olen Anna.
“Mä” is spoken Finnish for “minä” (I).
Are you hungry?
Written Finnish: Onko sinulla nälkä?
“Onks” = “onko” (is), “sul” = “sinulla” (you have).
I don't know.
Written Finnish: En minä tiedä.
Three textbook words melt into two spoken ones - you'll hear this daily.
Bye, see you!
Written Finnish: Hei hei, nähdään!
“Nähään” = “nähdään” - literally “we'll be seen”.
Now that went too far.
Written Finnish: Nyt se meni kyllä liian pitkälle.
From further down the same course - “överiks” is Helsinki slang, borrowed from Swedish “över”. The path keeps going into Finnish the textbooks never touch.