#tom failure

Good luck with dat booty!

Adorablah. I’d eat <3

Yup, Finnish is said to be one of the hardest languages to learn. Of course it's my mother tongue so I can't speak from personal experience, but I know people who have studied it as a foreign language, and they get often... well, frustrated. I've studied several foreign languages myself and all of them have been structurally completely different from my own language. I guess the biggest difference is that instead of prepositions we use suffixes and inflect the words themselves. Our nouns, pronouns and adjectives have 15 different cases. It's hard to explain, but basically it means that we can say a lot with just one word, we just need to inflect the stem word accordingly and maybe add some suffixes. For example, I can say "for my father as well" with just one word in Finnish: "isällenikin." It's just one word but it's made up of four different parts: isä + lle + ni + kin (father + for + my + too). 

This means of course that we can say more with fewer words but then those words get insanely long. I became very aware of this when I was working as a subtitler a couple of years ago and it often took A LOT of maneuvering to get all the words to fit in the screen that only allowed a certain number of characters per line.

And as for inflecting the words with different cases... I can only tell you one thing. It's very important to pick the right case or the meaning could change, and I do mean drastically. For example, the verb "naida" could mean either marrying someone or fucking someone, depending on which case you choose - "nai minut" means "marry me", whereas "nai minua" means "fuck me". "Minua" and "minut" are both partitive cases, so the difference is grammatically very, very small. To quote one of my favorite expats living in this country (Roman Schatz), "one can easily imagine many poor foreigners getting stuck in this country because the Finnish grammar got the better of them".

My favorite word is probably "hääyöaie", because, just look at all those consecutive vowels! It means "wedding night intention".