Conjugation

"KnowsAboutCars" (knowsaboutcars) 02/02/2015 at 11:41 • Filed to: polandball

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thebigbossyboss > KnowsAboutCars 02/02/2015 at 11:44

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...I saw you're and lairds discussion about finnish earlier. How do you have this many conjugations...is it like a different conjugation for each day of the month or what?

For Sweden > thebigbossyboss 02/02/2015 at 11:48

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Because they're monsters that's why.

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > For Sweden 02/02/2015 at 11:51

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for sweden, your username makes it even funnier :)

Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man > KnowsAboutCars 02/02/2015 at 11:53

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I'm glad i just speak english with only a few conjugations. I hated doing conjugation in english, imagine doing it in swedish...

KnowsAboutCars > thebigbossyboss 02/02/2015 at 11:58

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There are 15 noun cases but you can add all sorts of suffixes to them while retaining grammatical correctness. In reality you'd only need to learn most of the first panels word forms and about 2/3rd's of the second one's forms to speak proper Finnish.

I can barely understand all the most complicated ones and I'm Finnish!

MrPseudonym > KnowsAboutCars 02/02/2015 at 11:59

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Boy am I glad I don't live in Europe!

thebigbossyboss > KnowsAboutCars 02/02/2015 at 12:03

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That is crazy. I heard that the only language finnish is related to from a linguistic perspective is hungarian. My dad actually made it to Finland once doing something for Nokia I think.

KnowsAboutCars > thebigbossyboss 02/02/2015 at 12:11

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Estonian is even more closely related but those are the only two bigger languages that are related to finnish. There are some other languages spoken by small minorities in Russia which are related to finnish too.

KnowsAboutCars > MrPseudonym 02/02/2015 at 12:12

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But we speak english too!

MrPseudonym > KnowsAboutCars 02/02/2015 at 12:18

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English conjugations are easy. The thing that kills people is the grammar and the spelling. Seriously, our words are messed up. And also, they sound ugly, and don't flow well.

Makes me like Spanish more and more. Spelling's super easy, and conjugations are manageable...

Until you get to verbs like ir, leer, estar, gustar, ser... Yeah.

Cé hé sin > Jordaneer, The Mountaineer Man 02/02/2015 at 12:18

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Swedish (and Danish and Norwegian) aren't so bad. Singular/plural, definite/indefinite and add an S for the genitive case. Finnish is something else again.

You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much > KnowsAboutCars 02/02/2015 at 16:23

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I took Finnish lessons as a kid. This is the reason that I don't speak Finnish.

KnowsAboutCars > You can tell a Finn but you can't tell him much 02/02/2015 at 16:38

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At least you tried.