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[color=#000000ost_uid0][quoteost_uid0]I have no idea what cases are, [/quoteost_uid0]
They're what you call it if a noun changes depending on it's function in the sentence (subject, object, etc.) Latin has 5 different cases :eyeroll:, German four (I think), and I think Greek also has four. Modern Dutch has none, Old Dutch has a couple, don't know how many.

[quoteost_uid0]but I find the idea of arbitrarily dividing the world into two genders and then conjugating all your words along that system to be maddening. [/quoteost_uid0]
Heh. Dutch has three genders
Male, female, and neuter. Male and female share the same article, neuter has another one.

[quoteost_uid0]At least French only has two; German has four.
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German has four? Male, female, neuter and?
French is quite annoying, I can never remember which word is which gender (German is hard too, but it's more like Dutch so at least the words make [iost_uid0]some[/iost_uid0] sense)

[quoteost_uid0]An excessive number of verb tenses in also an annoyance. Â French has the present, the past, the other past, the future, the future simple, the future complicated, the conditional, the arbitrary, and the unconditional surrender. Â OK, so I made some of those up (and the surrender joke wasn't meant to refer to France's war record).
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Latin has about 3+ past tenses, 3+ future tenses, at least one present.[/colorost_uid0]