Category:Finnish terms by usage

Finnish terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Finnish archaic terms: Finnish terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Finnish autological terms: Finnish terms that possess the property they themselves describe.
• Category:Finnish childish terms: Finnish terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Finnish colloquialisms: Finnish terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Finnish corporate jargon: Finnish terms (typically for non-business-specific concepts) that are used especially in a business or corporate context.
• Category:Finnish dated terms: Finnish terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
• Category:Finnish derogatory terms: Finnish terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Finnish dialectal terms: Finnish terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Finnish ecclesiastical terms: Finnish terms used only by religious figures.
• Category:Finnish endearing terms: Finnish terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Finnish familiar terms: Finnish terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
• Category:Finnish folk poetic terms: Finnish terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of oral or folk poetry.
• Category:Finnish formal terms: Finnish terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Finnish higher register terms: Finnish terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Finnish historical terms: Finnish terms that refer to obsolete things or concepts.
• Category:Finnish humorous terms: Finnish terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Finnish informal terms: Finnish terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Finnish nonstandard terms: Finnish terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Finnish obsolete terms: Finnish terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Finnish offensive terms: Finnish terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Finnish officialese terms: Finnish terms that are chiefly used by official sources, and are often bureaucratic-sounding.
• Category:Finnish oxymorons: Finnish terms that are juxtapositions of opposing ideas.
• Category:Finnish placeholder terms: Finnish terms used to refer to items for which one does not know or cannot recall the name, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
• Category:Finnish poetic terms: Finnish terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Finnish polite terms: Finnish polite terms, which are used to show deference and respect.
• Category:Finnish proscribed terms: Finnish terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Finnish rare terms: Finnish terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
• Category:Finnish self-deprecatory terms: Finnish self-deprecatory terms.
• Category:Finnish short forms: Finnish terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Finnish slang: Finnish colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Finnish technical terms: Finnish terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
• Category:Finnish terms with archaic senses: Finnish terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Finnish terms with historical senses: Finnish terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Finnish terms with obsolete senses: Finnish terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Finnish terms with rare senses: Finnish rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Finnish terms with uncertain meaning: Finnish terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
• Category:Finnish terms with uncommon senses: Finnish uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
• Category:Finnish trademarks: Finnish terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
• Category:Finnish uncommon terms: Finnish uncommonly used terms.
• Category:Finnish vulgarities: Finnish terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.