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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Meanwhile Danish turns the indefinite article into a definite suffix. Like:

A house: "et hus"
The house: "huset"
Houses: "huse"
The houses: "husene"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

Don't most (if not all) Nordic languages do that?

Also, I can't help but share: https://youtu.be/s-mOy8VUEBk

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Scandinavian, yes, nordic, well, I don't think they do it in Finnish? Not sure about Icelandic.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Fair. I meant Scandinavian and not Finno-Scandic in my comment. Finnish isn't even in the same language family, so I don't claim to know anything about it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

English can be confusing too-- just look how many homophones we have! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNTM9iM1eVw

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

What did you call me?