Taskusanakirja: The Finnish-English dictionary you didn't know you needed
An elegant Terminal User Interface for Finnish lexicography. Navigate thousands of words with intuitive keyboard controls, or use powerful CLI commands for quick lookups. Available for Mac, Linux, and Windows (really!).
"Opi nyt, vanha ja nuori, / jolla ompi sydän tuore, [...] Lue siis, hyvä lapsi, tästä / alkuoppi ilman estettä."
(Learn now, old and young, / who have a fresh heart, [...] Read then, good child, from this / the beginning of the Finnish language without hindrance.)
— Mikael Agricola, Abckiria (1543)
The Scholar's Companion
Swift as Thought
Instant lexical retrieval for thousands of Finnish lemmata. No latency between curiosity and comprehension.
Codex Digitalis
A command-line interface designed for the modern philologist. Where terminal meets terminology.
Lemmatization Engine
Professional edition includes morphological analysis to decode even the most complex inflected forms.
Why Choose Taskusanakirja?
The only professional terminal-based Finnish-English dictionary with advanced linguistic features that developers, linguists, and power users actually need.
| Feature | Taskusanakirja | Mobile Apps | Web Tools | Desktop Apps |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Speed & Performance | ||||
| Average Search Speed | Truly Instant | Slower | Network-dependent | Slower |
| Worst Case Search Speed | Still Instant | Network timeouts | Server errors | Slow startup |
| Works without internet | 30 days* | Limited | Limited | |
| Advanced Linguistic Features | ||||
| Inflection Search | Pro Feature | |||
| Go Deeper - zero click cross referencing | Built-in | |||
| Example Sentences | Built-in | Varies | Varies | Varies |
| Reverse English → Finnish Search | Built-in | Limited | Limited | |
| Platform & Interface | ||||
| Terminal/CLI Interface | Unique | |||
| Scriptable/Automation | Unique | |||
| Privacy & Performance | ||||
| Ad Free | Always | Usually has ads | Usually has ads | Varies |
| No Data Collection | Varies | |||
| Memory Usage | Low (~50MB) | Varies | N/A | Higher |
| Startup Time | ~0.3 seconds | 0.5-2s | N/A | Slower |
*One internet check-in refreshes offline license for another 30 days
Unique Terminal Experience
The only professional Finnish-English dictionary designed for terminal users with full keyboard navigation and scriptable CLI interface.
Advanced Linguistic Features
Find base forms from inflected words and "Go Deeper" into definitions seamlessly without extra clicks or navigation steps.
Observe the Elegance
Experience the intersection of computational efficiency and lexicographical tradition.