Comments by "Mikko Rantalainen" (@MikkoRantalainen) on "Weird plurals in English: Men, geese, sheep, knives and many more" video.

  1. As an example of much more complex plurals, let's take Finnish. Here we "koira" (dog) and "koirat" (dogs) which would make you believe that you just add "-t" at the end. However, in Finnish, the words in sentence get inflection forms based on larger context. When you combine words "kaksi" (two) and "koira" (dog), the result is not "kaksi koirat" but "kaksi koiraa". And to make things ever more complex, if you are unsure about the count, you would say something like "muutamia koiria" or "muutama koira" (both meaning a couple of dogs). And then there are historical exceptions, too! For example, one would say "puoli tusinaa lusikoita" but "kuusi lusikkaa" (both meaning six spoons) because the expressions "puoli tusinaa" is historical style and will use different inflection form than using just a numeric count.
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  2. There's a meme image where Swedish grammar is illustrated by a kitten and Finnish grammar is illustrated by Godzilla. Seems legit to me as a native speaker.
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