Finlandism

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As Finnlandismus ( Finland plus ism ) refers to any linguistic feature in the Swedish language , which is typically but not used in Finland in the entire Swedish-speaking region. Many, but not all, Finlandisms are so-called fennicisms , i.e. linguistic expressions that have been borrowed from Finnish or at least go back to interferences with Finnish. Some examples of Finlandisms are:

  • Loan translations , like
    • finland sw. egenläkare ("house doctor", from Finnish. omalääkäri ) instead of Swedish. husläkare or
    • finland sw. hand phone ( "mobile" by finn. käsipuhelin ) instead schwed. cellphone .
  • Loan words like
    • finland sw. studenthalare ( " student overalls " by finn. haalari ) instead schwed. student overall or
    • finland sw. skvär ("small square", from Russian сквер from English square ) instead of Swedish torg .
  • the genitive according to the Finnish pattern: finnlandschw. Användarnas anvisningar looks like "user instructions" for Imperial Swedes , but means "user instructions" (Swedish: anvisningar för användarna ).
  • the different use of prepositions , such as
    • finland sw. framgå ur något instead of Swedish framgå av något ("to emerge from something") or
    • finland sw. köpa något från en affär instead of swedish köpa något i en affär ("buy something in a shop").

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