''Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish'' ( fi, Kielitoimiston sanakirja, previously known as the ''New Dictionary of Modern Finnish'') is the most recent

dictionary A dictionary is a listing of lexemes from the lexicon of one or more specific languages, often arranged alphabetically (or by radical and stroke for ideographic languages), which may include information on definitions, usage, etymologie ...

of the modern

Finnish language Finnish ( endonym: or ) is a Uralic language of the Finnic branch, spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by ethnic Finns outside of Finland. Finnish is one of the two official languages of Finland (the other being Swedi ...

. It is edited by the Institute for the Languages of Finland. The current printed edition was first published in 2006 and is based on the 2004 digital version of the same name. The printed version lacks some features of the electronic version, such as the latter's index of Finnish place names (''asuinpaikkahakemisto''). The dictionary is monolingual and attempts to "accurately reflect standard Finnish as it is used today". It explains the meanings of most headwords and provides information about their spelling, inflected forms, stylistic register, usage, and context.

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The dictionary consists of almost 100,000 entries. It is an expanded and modernized version of the ''Suomen kielen perussanakirja'' (''Basic Dictionary of the Finnish Language''), printed between 1990 and 1994 (and digitalized as the ''CD-Perussanakirja'' in 1997). Compared to the ''Suomen kielen perussanakirja'', the 2006 edition has about 6,500 new entries and about 20,000 modified entries. Together with the '' Nykysuomen sanakirja'', the new dictionaries form a very comprehensive collection of information on the modern

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* {{Official website, https://www.kielitoimistonsanakirja.fi/, name=Kielitoimiston sanakirja online Finnish dictionaries Finnish language 2006 non-fiction books Online dictionaries

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