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IlTerribile
No french? i expected some french.
circegirl
My bro in law has Finnish roots and their dog is named Koira!
VariousEdibleFoodstuffs
Perkele
ramarins
Ok, I'll ask... not all these words mean "dog", right? Is it an adjective + "dog"?
untuvikosta
No adjectives, but they do include possessive pronouns, inquisitive markers etc. E.g. koiraasiko has 'your dog' + partitive case + question
AlwaysUpvotesRaul
Szia!
RealityInflicted
Hence why sane people refer to the baltic sea as "the language barrier".
insongwhang
No vittu. Hävittiin.
Yurets1257
As a non-native speaker, I frigging love English. I wish all other languages would disappear!
Freakscar
Thank the heavens, there's languages worse off than german. Also "der Hunden" should be "der Hunde" without the n. ;)
scruffenheim
Is this why I never hear of anyone learning Hungarian?
chunyukuo
We Chinese got it figured out. Just 狗, always and forever.
EndlessTrash
How.
insongwhang
Yes
BenSnow97
Playing lego with words, essentially. You know how a noun can become a verb or an adjective and vice versa in English? Well, how about >
BenSnow97
doing that multiple times in a single word, and also gluing all the "of", "to", and other prepositions to the word itself? That's how >
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Hungarian does it. You can do it in English too, it's just gonna be multiple words (3-4 for the longer groups -- sorry, the specific >
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word on the image is a bit hard to translate because it uses a weird expression that doesn't make a lot of sense, you just instinctively >
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understand it.)
LabResults
Agglutinative languages FTW!
montemanm1
Languages that aren't gluten-free?
silbendrechsler
Languages that stack grammatical suffixes like English -s, -ing, or -ed on top of another to modify a word stem's meaning.
TinaEveFox
The Hungarian guy I work with said "Well, yes, when you say to someone its a dog, but it's like even more of a dog then it's this." Like ok!
Royoffinland
Our language is so hard, that everyone will stagger occasionally, failing miserably.
IchBinEinMclovin
Magyar? Or Finn?
VonKarnstein
Judging his username, definitely Magyar.
insongwhang
Even native speakers.
yccc
This! Sometimes you stop mid sentence and ask your self is that even a word...
amundost
Yeah, in Norwegian, you could basically just combine any word. Soveposepersiennejustererknapp - sleeping bag blind adjuster button
threelitreassengine
sporvognsskinneskidtskraber
amundost
Yeah, the train track dirt cleaner... we all want that
Jonsse
Joo!!
Predicto
English is weird because it steals vocabulary from so many other languages and can be irregular, but oh my god Hungarian is just HARD
JHawke
I don't know a single language that doesn't steal from just as many languages.
Predicto
True, but most of them are taking vocabulary from English, at least nowadays, due to television, movies and the internet.
JHawke
Only if you only look at recent additions, in which case English is also not that strange.
Predicto
I guess. My understanding is that English has the largest distinct vocabulary (not just number of possible conjugations) of any language.
Predicto
But it's not a big deal if I'm wrong.
Seruun
Conjugate? I 'ardly know 'er.
Dippstix90
HAJRÁ MAGYAROK!
Cyandvai
Teufel Hunden is all I know of German.
HonestCommentFarmer
softsuit
Devil dogs with Crayons
BigDaddysMeatWagon
Ojibwe is almost entirely made it conjugations. Like the entire language. Shits crazy
silbendrechsler
Yes, that's called "polysynthetic." It's a pretty alien thing to speakers of Indo-European langs like English, but it's also pretty cool.
BigDaddysMeatWagon
What's nice is when you learn the conjugations it's all just... Root words from there. I've forgotten many words, don't get to speak it much
johnefffd
Epoksiliima
Torille!!!
SirRichardOfHead
Epäkoirallistattamattomuudellaansakohan?
NotoriousBadassWhoLovesMusicals
Torillemmekokaan?
Nanoxt
Toreillemmekaankohan...
ExTechOp
Toreillemmekaankohankin?
HappyGreasyBelly
Never forget 95!
iraslak
My car has diesel engine but I use 95oct because nevö foget!
JackSander
Ew a 9gag watermark!
AnonOmis1000
Now I dont feel so bad about English
Redisia
I speak 4 languages to various degree's of mastery, English ... by far is the easiest. I picked it up when i was like 9... without trying
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The problem with English is how many exceptions there are. French is very specific and complicated, but rarely deviates from it's rules
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But English has a thousand exceptions to every rule
Sauroctonus
They're more guidelines than rules.
DiscountMentat
Declensions, not conjugations
DougTheLlama
Go drink your discount juice!
DiscountMentat
It is by will alone I set my mind in motion
lajka28
Why isn't Finalnd scared when Hungary presented its own language's creepy grammar?
BenSnow97
for the same reason a hedgehog is scared of a spike even though it has many of its own
uzerok
Same language family.
Dhatudhatu
Because it's a Finno-Ugric language, just like Finnish is (member of the Uralic language family).
lajka28
So what? Hungarian and Finnish are still as close as English is to Persian. It's a little ignorance coming from Indo-European lang. speakers
BartledooTaco
https://histdoc.net/sounds/hungary.html
Quellan
This seems a weird point to make. Hungarian and Finnish are like cousins, while French and Russian are closer to second or third cousins.
Quellan
Sorry, meant English and Persian.
lajka28
No. They're very distant from each other.