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by misja111 2327 days ago
I don't agree that the Finnish grammar is highly systematic. Take instance, the partitive case. It seems to be applicable to a mixed bag of situations with all kinds of exceptions. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partitive_case)

Another example: the inclination of the genitive case to nouns. There is a whole bunch of rules again with many exceptions. (See e.g. here: http://users.jyu.fi/~pamakine/kieli/suomi/sijat/genetiivien....)

(source: I'm also Dutch, my wife is Finnish so I have been trying to learn the language for many years with very limited succes .. )