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Old 05-12-2008, 03:14 AM
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Originally Posted by Erebos View Post
heh, that's why English is easier in this sense. No genders. Another thing about German is its cases. Genative/Nominative/etc. They're incredibly confusing...I wish I could learn them subconsciously as I did in English. Seriously who the hell thinks in English "I need to pick out the indirect object in the sentence and know to use the dative form." *claws eyes out*

Eh, German's ok imo. Finnish has 15 cases. By comparison, 4 is pretty simple, or even 6, like Russian and Latin have.
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