Conjugation.
| Hungarian. | Esthonian. | English. |
| Lelem | leian | I find. |
| Leled | leiad | thou findest. |
| Leli | leiab | he finds. |
| Leljük | leiame | we find. |
| Lelitek | leiate | you find. |
| Lelik | leiawad | they find. |
A Comparative Table of the Numerals of each of the Four Branches of the Finnic Class, showing the degree of their relationship.
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| Chudic, Finnish | yksi | kaksi | kolme | neljä |
| Chudic, Esthonian | iits | kats | kolm | nelli |
| Bulgaric, Tcheremissian | ik | kok | kum | nil |
| Bulgaric, Mordvinian | vaike | kavto | kolmo | nile |
| Permic, Sirianian | ötik | kyk | kujim | ujoli |
| Ugric, Ostiakian | it | kat | chudem | njeda |
| Ugric, Hungarian | egy | ket | harom | negy |
| 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| Chudic, Finnish | viisi | kuusi | seitsemän |
| Chudic, Esthonian | wiis | kuas | seitse |
| Bulgaric, Tcheremissian | vis | kut | sim |
| Bulgaric, Mordvinian | väte | kóto | sisem |
| Permic, Sirianian | vit | kvait | sizim |
| Ugric, Ostiakian | vet | chut | tabet |
| Ugric, Hungarian | öt | hat | het |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| Chudic, Finnish | kahdeksan | yhdeksan | kymmenen |
| Chudic, Esthonian | kattesa | üttesa | kümme |
| Bulgaric, Tcheremissian | kändäxe | endexe | lu |
| Bulgaric, Mordvinian | kavsko | väikse | kämen |
| Permic, Sirianian | kökjâmys | ökmys | das |
| Ugric, Ostiakian | nida | arjong | jong |
| Ugric, Hungarian | njolcz | kilencz | tiz |
We have thus examined the four chief classes of the Turanian family, the Tungusic, Mongolic, Turkic, and Finnic. The Tungusic branch stands lowest; its grammar is not much richer than Chinese, and in its structure there is an absence of that architectonic order which in Chinese makes the Cyclopean stones of language hold together without cement. This applies, however, principally to the Mandshu; other Tungusic dialects spoken, not in China, but in the original seats of the Mandshus, are even now beginning to develop grammatical forms.
The Mongolic dialects excel the Tungusic, but in their grammar can hardly distinguish between the different parts of speech. The spoken idioms of the Mongolians, as of the Tungusians, are evidently struggling towards a more organic life, and Castrén has brought home evidence of incipient verbal growth in the language of the Buriäts and a Tungusic dialect spoken near Nyertchinsk.
This is, however, only a small beginning, if compared with the profusion of grammatical resources displayed by the Turkic languages. In their system of conjugation, the Turkic dialects can hardly be surpassed. Their verbs are like branches which break down under the heavy burden of fruits and blossoms. The excellence of the Finnic languages consists rather in a diminution than increase of verbal forms; but in declension Finnish is even richer than Turkish.
These four classes, together with the Samoyedic, constitute the northern or Ural-Altaic division of the Turanian family.