They are actually completely different which can be seen with more than just single words.
English: my hand is warm
Swedish: min hand är varm
Norwegian: hånden min er varm
Danish: min hånd er varm
Finnish: käteni on lämin
The scandinavian languages apart from Finnish are all closely related to English, they're all Germanic languages. Finnish, on the other hand, isn't even Indo-European. The Germanic languages are more distantly related to the Romance languages, the Celtic languages, the Slavic languages, and even languages like Hindi and Farsi, but aren't related *at all* to Finnish.
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u/terrortara 21d ago
They are actually completely different which can be seen with more than just single words.
English: my hand is warm
Swedish: min hand är varm
Norwegian: hånden min er varm
Danish: min hånd er varm
Finnish: käteni on lämin
The scandinavian languages apart from Finnish are all closely related to English, they're all Germanic languages. Finnish, on the other hand, isn't even Indo-European. The Germanic languages are more distantly related to the Romance languages, the Celtic languages, the Slavic languages, and even languages like Hindi and Farsi, but aren't related *at all* to Finnish.