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The Finnish example translation is wrong: "an example" should be "esimerkki". (There are no articles in Finnish.) The map shows "esimerkiksi" which means "for e
by usr1106 2y ago
The Finnish example translation is wrong: "an example" should be "esimerkki". (There are no articles in Finnish.) The map shows "esimerkiksi" which means "for example". (Prepositions are relatively rare in Finnish.)
Edit: Ah, it says the data is from Google translator. So no suprise here, Google translator produces poor results. It's said that Deepl is much better. I can't really tell because I don't need machine translation Finnish English. Both are roughly equally strong foreign languages for me.
- kgeist 2y agoFor Slavic languages, it sometimes produces arbitrary case forms, too.
- fjivnfyu 2y agoWhen translating between two languages with gendered nouns, it will also lose the correct gender in translation, since it goes through the intermediate step of English. It’s hilarious how inadequate it is.
- hulium 2y agoThe fine-print at the bottom of the page says "The translations were retrieved around 2014". Machine translation has come a long way since then.
- Tainnor 2y agoMachine translation has come a long way since then, but Google Translate continues to be so far behind it's quite ridiculous.
- encom 2y agoI've had very mixed luck with all online translation services when translating between danish and english. Google was bad to the point of being unusable, but none were great. ChatGPT however is excellent at this. It's a shame its output is so extremely slow, or it would have been perfect.
- carlosjobim 2y agoDeepL is leagues better than Google Translate, and I can tell because I've worked with a lot of translation to and from Finnish. They are not even comparable. Google Translate will completely garble any translation to or from Finnish. Kagi Translate also does a great job in Finnish translation.