Finnish interpreting and translation

Finnish interpreting for courts, clinics and boardrooms

Many Finns speak excellent English, yet interpreting is still used in courts, police interviews, healthcare and formal negotiations, and for older people. Finnish has a single pronoun, hän, for he and she, so our interpreters clarify gender where it matters, and they move comfortably between spoken Finnish, which differs noticeably from the written standard, and formal registers. For Finland's Swedish-speaking community we ask whether the client prefers Swedish or Finnish.

We provide Finnish interpreters face to face, by telephone at any hour of the day or night, and by video through the SILA Linguists® video app or the platform your service has approved. For technology and engineering projects we provide consecutive interpreting for factory acceptance tests, audits and site visits in the forestry and manufacturing sectors. We also provide simultaneous or remote simultaneous interpreting for conferences, product launches and research symposia.

Finnish translation, localisation and certification

Finnish builds long words through compounding and endings, with fifteen cases and vowel harmony, so user interfaces and layouts need checking after translation. We localise software, games, apps, websites and telecoms documentation for Finnish users, and many products need both Finnish and Swedish versions, which we can deliver together. AI-assisted translation with human post-editing suits large technical and software volumes.

Certified translations of civil records, court documents, diplomas and corporate papers carry a signed statement of accuracy and completeness, accepted by the Home Office, employers, universities and other UK authorities. Finnish documents for authorities in the United States, Canada or Australia are certified as each requires, NAATI included where Australia asks. In Finland, authorised translators certify official translations under a national scheme, so check what a Finnish authority needs.

Finnish transcription and subtitling

Finland has a strong subtitling tradition, and we create Finnish subtitles for film, television, games and corporate video, as well as time-coded transcripts with English translation for interviews, research and legal recordings.

Sectors we support in Finnish

Our vetted, trained and qualified Finnish linguists can support technology, telecoms and gaming studios, courts and police, healthcare and social services, forestry, engineering and manufacturing, universities and research institutes, and exporters trading with Finland. SILA Linguists® provides a dedicated coordinator and Finnish linguists vetted for their field, with confidentiality under signed agreements and UK GDPR. Finnish interpreting is available for courts, hospitals and business meetings in the United States, Canada and Australia.