Andrew's Finnish Vocabulary Masker

(All masks are stored in your browser's local storage. Nothing you do here leaves your computer.)

Github repo

Stored Masks

No masks stored yet.

What is this for?

This is just a tiny tool to help Finnish language learners who want to generate, say, their own flashcards, hide the words they are practicing with just enough information that they can see the "shape" of the word without actually being able to guess it from context alone. Like all major languages Finnish words frequently have many synonyms, which can be hard to tell from each other if a vocabulary card gives you no additional information whatsoever. I hope you'll find them helpful too!

For example, if I ask you for the Finnish word for "again", there are many possibilities. But if I ask you for the Finnish word for "again" with word mask _.._ or xUUx, it's much easier to tell I am looking specifically for the word taas, and not e.g. uudelleen.

I have used these kinds of masks already for my Anki decks finfreq10k and the earlier finfreq for a few years now, and find them quite helpful.

Check out finbug.xyz for a full listing of all my Finnish language learning tools!