Introduction
The
programme SuomiTan is an electronic version of the Finnish
and Danish pocket dictionary
("Suomi-tanska-suomi taskusanakirja")
by Sirkka Kroman, WSOY 1991 and Sanoma
Pro 2007.
SuomiTan can also find the meaningful parts (morphemes) of the given Finnish or Danish word. The programme will recognise the regular
derivations, inflexions and compounds
in both languages.
SuomiTan runs on a PC with Windows 95 or any later version, including Windows 11. You may download it as a compressed file
Suomi.zip from a subdivision
of the web site groenord.dk. Afterwards find Suomi.zip in the folder Downloads,
right click and choose
"Extract all". The dictionaries
and the programme will now be placed
in a folder Suomi\SuomiTan (or
what you choose). Enter it, right click on the programme
icon and select
"Fasten to Process Line", "Fasten to
the Menu Start", or "Send to .. Desktop (create shortcut)".
Windows
will warn you against running
the programme, but it contains
no harmful files or ads. In Windows 10 and 11 you should choose
"More information" and (down right)
"Run anyway".
The
Finnish-Danish part of the dictionary
has been supplemented so that it contains the more than 100.000 entry words in the printed Kielitoimiston sanakirja from 2012. Words can be looked up in a newer version of this dictionary on
www.kielitoimistonsanakirja.fi.
I
have added references to the Danish-Finnish
dictionary when it gives more information (e.g. synonymic) on a Finnish word. The full names of 1.250 vascular plants have also been added,
and a survey of the plant families in "Nordens
flora" by Bo Mossberg and Lennart Stenberg, Gyldendal 2020. See the last part of [Guide]Compounds (yhdyssanat).
The
pocket dictionary contains only about
20.000 entry words in each language. But an analysis will often
help you to understand much more.
The
running programme has a topmost bar with a number of push-buttons on the screen. One of the last is [Guide]. The present file
is [Guide]Introduction. Continue
with [Guide]How to use the programme.
Further information may
be obtained from:
Henrik
Aagesen