Studying Japanese? You groan about their three different alphabets. Learning German? You think it's silly that bridges and sidewalks have to be designated male or female. Trying English? Good luck. We've stolen every third word from wholly unrelated sources, and we have silent letters literally just to fuck with you. All languages are tough. But these next few are "hardcore" difficulty ...

5 Archi -- The Language With 1.5 Million Verb Endings

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The English language has three different verb endings. These are -ing, -ed, and -s. "He farted," "He's farting," or "He really farts constantly." With us so far? OK. Archi, an indigenous language spoken in southwest Russia, has 1,502,839 verb endings. Chew on that for a moment -- an Archi speaker can tell you to piss off in more ways than there are words in the Oxford dictionary.

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Even Dr. Dan Streetmentioner finds it to be a bit excessive.

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In addition to tense, the Archi language has a bunch of verb modifiers for things like gender (of which there are four options, because, hey, they're progressive), case, number, and a bunch of other grammatical nuances missing from English. For example, an Archi verb takes the ending -cugu if the speaker is expressing doubt that something happened, -ra if it possibly happened and -er if it happened with certainty.

So when expressing "He farted" in Archi, the speaker can account for who farted, when they farted, how many of them farted, how sure you are that they did in fact fart, how loudly they farted, the circumstances under which they farted, and probably how badly the fart smelled -- just by slightly changing the verb. So by the time you, as a new speaker, figure out how to tell this bastard to stop fogging up the car with butt, everybody has long since died from methane poisoning.

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It's pronounced with a silent but deadly T.