Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Finnish are one market and four languages.
Companies sell into the Nordics as one region and then discover the region does not read as one. Here is what that actually costs, from an Oslo company whose own site runs in all four.
The short answer
Three of the four are close enough to tempt you and different enough to embarrass you. Norwegian, Swedish and Danish are mutually intelligible in writing and full of words that look identical and mean something else; Finnish is not a North Germanic language at all and shares almost nothing with the other three. Norwegian additionally has two written standards, and the one you want for a commercial site is bokmål. So the Nordic job is four separate translations with a shared glossary — not one Scandinavian pass — and the tool you pick should make adding the fourth cost the same attention as the first, which is to say none.
The four, and what each one asks of you.
Norwegian (bokmål)
Two written standards exist — bokmål and nynorsk — and a commercial site is written in bokmål unless you have a specific reason. Pick one and lock it in the glossary; a translation that drifts between them reads as careless to a Norwegian.
Swedish
The largest of the four by market size, and the one where Danish and Norwegian phrasing shows through most obviously if the same draft is reused. Worth a separate glossary pass on product nouns.
Danish
Closest to Norwegian bokmål on the page, which is exactly why the false friends bite. A do-not-translate list on product names does most of the protecting here.
Finnish
Not related to the other three. Heavily inflected, so word order and endings carry meaning that a phrase-by-phrase approach loses, and interface strings need room to grow. Treat it as a separate project that happens to ship at the same time.
Read this in Norwegian, then Danish, then Finnish.
The language links in the footer are not a demo — they are this site, translated by the product it sells, under the same glossary and do-not-translate rules a customer gets. If the Finnish reads badly, that is a real defect in something we ship, and you have found it before paying us anything.
How the Nordic set is normally run.
One glossary, four outputs
Product names, feature names and the words your industry argues about go in the glossary and the do-not-translate list once. Every language then draws on the same decisions instead of re-litigating them.
A page per language, or none of this ranks
Swedish customers search in Swedish. If your site swaps language in the browser at one URL, Google sees one page in one language and the Nordic expansion buys you readers you already had.
The fourth language costs what the first did
No tier here limits how many languages you run and none of them carries a separate fee. What the plan counts is words stored, and each language stores its own — so the cost of the Nordic set is the words, not the count of flags.
What does BeMyWords cost?
Free to start: 5,000 words stored, 1 site, no card. Paid tiers open at 199 kr a month — 1,990 kr for a year — and are counted on words stored — the source plus each translation of it — never on seats, pageviews or a cap on how many languages you run. Bring your own AI key and it is 199 kr a month flat with no word limit.
Every tier, and what it holdsStart with the market you already sell in.
Free to start, no card. Turn on one Nordic language today and judge the output in the one you can read.
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