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NOUN

GENDER
1. Every noun belongs to one of these 3 genres
  1. Femenine
    1. Have not yet considered the General Feminine declension nouns.
      1. Because they have somewhat different shape, historically.
        eg: Nom. singular : talu plural: tala
  2. Masculine
    1. All nouns which share that paradigm are said to belong to a particular declension.
      1. We can give a name to this declension for ease of reference.
        eg: wifmann,
  3. Neutral
    1. neuters have -e in the accusative singular
NUMBER
1. singular and plural
  1. Gender
    1. Masculine
      1. Nominative/Dative Plurals end in “-as”
    2. Femenine
      1. Only has Dative Singular/Plural and Genitive Plural in common with Masculine and Neuter words
    3. Neuter
      1. Nominative/Accusative Plurals end in “-u”
  2. Declension
    1. General Neuter Declension
      1. sċip
    2. N Declension
      1. Guma - guman
    3. General Masculine Declension
      1. stān
      2. wyrm
CASE
1. They acquire different ending depending of the function that it will use in nouns and subject
  1. Present-day English
    1. Use complex syntactic structure
  2. Old English
    1. Gives flexibility that has now been lost
  3. There exist 4 types of case
    1. Nominative
      1. Equites to the subject
        Ex. Singular: sċip Plural: sċipu
    2. Accusative
      1. Equites to the object
        Ex. Singular: sċip Plural: sċipu
    3. Genitive
      1. Is the similar to the present-day English
        To know that is possessive
        Ex. Singular: sċipes Plural: sċipa
    4. Dative
      1. Use it as indirect object
        Ex. Singular: sċipe Plural: sċipum

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