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Why English to Finnish is harder than it looks

Finnish has fifteen cases and no prepositions. “In the house,” “from the house,” “into the house” are all endings on talo rather than separate words. An English phrase made of three short words becomes one Finnish word with the grammar inside it.

There are no articles and no grammatical gender. Nothing marks “a” or “the,” and hän covers both “he” and “she.” Going into Finnish that information is simply dropped; coming back, English has to invent it.

Vowel harmony decides which ending a word takes. The vowels in the root determine whether the suffix uses a, o, u or ä, ö, y. Getting it wrong produces a word that is close to right and obviously wrong to a Finnish reader.

Finnish is not related to Swedish or Russian. It is Uralic, not Indo-European, so structural assumptions borrowed from neighbouring languages simply do not hold. This is the single biggest reason English to Finnish is harder than English to any of its neighbours.