Finnish – English dictionary
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🏃 Action words 140
🍜 Food & drink 119
🔢 Numbers 103
👨👩👧 Family 101
🕯️ Faith & holidays 100
🎨 Colours 99
⏰ Time 99
🦶 Body 98
🏠 Home 97
🛍️ Shopping 97
💻 Technology 96
⚽ Sports 93
💖 Feelings 92
🐾 Animals 92
💭 Big ideas 90
🏛️ Society 89
✨ Describing words 89
💼 Work 87
🚌 Transport 82
👋 Basics 81
🌿 Nature 80
📍 Places 77
🎎 Culture 73
🤝 Greetings 72
🎒 School 71
🩺 Health 69
☕ Everyday life 68
✈️ Travel 68
❓ Questions 67
🆘 Getting help 64
💕 Love & friends 63
⛅ Weather 63
🗨️ Small talk 56
🍽️ At the café 42
🗣️ Spoken & modern 41
🎃 Halloween 22
| Finnish | English | Level |
|---|---|---|
| to practise, to train | A1 | |
| to lose (a game or match) | A1 | |
| to ski (cross-country) | A1 | |
| ice hockey | A1 | |
| football, soccer | A1 | |
| team | A1 | |
| competition, race | A1 | |
| basketball | A1 | |
| exercise, keeping fit | A1 | |
| gym, fitness centre | A1 | |
| jogging, running for exercise | A1 | |
| jog, a run or walk for exercise | A1 | |
| ball | A1 | |
| to cycle, to ride a bike | A1 | |
| referee, judge | A1 | |
| to do sport, to exercise | A1 | |
| sport(s) | A1 | |
| coach, trainer | A1 | |
| stretching | A1 | |
| to win | A1 | |
| to shoot (a ball) | A2 | |
| to attack | A2 | |
| to jump | A2 | |
| spectator, viewer | A2 | |
| field, pitch, court | A2 | |
| outfield player (in team sports) | A2 | |
| competition, race (colloquial for kilpailu) | A2 | |
| to exercise, to work out | A2 | |
| to warm up | A2 | |
| goalkeeper | A2 | |
| medal | A2 | |
| match, game (a contest) | A2 | |
| prize, award | A2 | |
| to defend | A2 | |
| to pass (a ball) | A2 | |
| defeat, loss | A2 | |
| draw, tie | A2 | |
| training session, practice (colloquial) | A2 | |
| sports club | A2 | |
| opponent | A2 | |
| to stretch (a muscle) | A2 | |
| victory, win | A2 | |
| record (a personal best or world record) | B1 | |
| sand court (e.g. for beach volleyball) | B1 | |
| penalty box time, sin bin (a player sent off temporarily in ice hockey) | B1 | |
| stretch, flexibility exercise (a stretch in a gym or training) | B1 | |
| climbing wall | B1 | |
| to climb | B1 | |
| to recover (from an injury, to get back in shape) | B1 | |
| shot (a kick, throw or shot at goal) | B1 | |
| wrestler | B1 | |
| to kick | B1 | |
| penalty (a free kick or penalty kick awarded for a foul) | B1 | |
| to ride (a horse) | B1 | |
| to dive (underwater) | B1 | |
| pass (in ball games) | B1 | |
| technique (the way a skill is performed in sport) | B1 | |
| injury | B1 | |
| speed, pace | B1 | |
| beach volleyball | B2 |
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