@FeartnTired
As it happens, I was just thinking about German, and languages in general.
This video is actually a pretty good illustration of how different grammars approach things differently. Now I'm sure he's hamming it up and exaggerating here and there, but the point still stands. When I first learned English, I had to get over exactly this sort of issues between Finnish and English. One example being that in English one says "it is raining", with a pronoun, but Finnish can do verbs without a pronoun, so we would just say "rains".
That's because "suomessa ei ole passiivimuodossa ylimääräisiä sanoja", or "in Finnish no is in passive form extra words".
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50jkO2s4Sp0
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