Finnish books for beginners

14 public domain books in Finnish with mostly everyday words and shorter sentences, CEFR A2-B1 by our estimate. Choose one and open it in Lingo7: the app shows a translation under every sentence, so you can read a real book sooner than you would on your own.

These books at a glance

Books
14 A2-B1
Length
6,241 to 77,274 words
Reading time
31 min to 6 h 26 min
Common words
69% of the text on average

The level is our estimate from how common the words are and how long the sentences run, not a test result. Common words are those used at least 10 times per million words of Finnish (Zipf frequency 4 or higher, wordfreq data). Reading time assumes a native pace of 200 words a minute.

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