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Originally Posted by omk3
I wouldn't call the German grammar "crappy" - in fact it has a kind of internal logic that makes sense. It's, erm, organised. It's also rather hard to learn, and complicated. I'm very glad I learned German at school, because I would probably never have attempted it later in life, voluntarily. That said, there must be even more complicated grammars out there - a Lithuanian friend told me they have no less than seven cases, nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, locative, and vocative. It does sound discouraging for a potential student of the language...
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Finnish has fifteen noun cases: four grammatical cases, six locative cases, two essive cases (three in some Eastern dialects) and three marginal cases...
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Now we know why so few people learn Finnish
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