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Learn Finnish, you'll get to say "in the 1997th" as "tuhannennessayhdeksännessäsadannessayhdeksännessäkymmenennessäseitsemännessä".

Or avoid saying things in that manner to save your sanity, but who am I to judge? "from 1994 to 1997" would colloquially just be "välillä/vuodet ysineljä ysiseiska" to avoid compound words with forty syllables. I had to consult wiktionary to make sure I was inflecting that properly, and I'm native!

4 hours ago · 👍 eph

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đź‘˝ eph

Primary stress always at the inital phoneme too, right? How would that work in a word like

tuhannennessayhdeksännessäsadannessayhdeksännessäkymmenennessäseitsemännessä

? I'm assuming it's rhythmic, but holy moly is that a long word. · 35 minutes ago