Ask HN: What features are missing from the English language?

For instance, in Chinese, you can flip the sentence structure from Subject-Verb-Object to Subject-Object-Verb with 把 (ba3). So you can say "I scolded him" 《我骂他了》 or "I him scolded" 《我把他骂了》。 Either are valid.

I'm curious about the expressiveness of English versus other languages.