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Adjectives have been radically simplified since Gothic. All adjectives have hard stems and all inflectional endings have been lost.
Adjectives have been radically simplified since Gothic. All adjectives have hard stems and all inflectional endings have been lost.


.Attributive adjectives are only marked for gender, case, number and definiteness insofar as these distinctions are marked by umlaut alternations, so attributive feminine adjectives are indeclinable. Predicative adjectives are inflected for both gender and number.
.Attributive adjectives are only marked for gender, case, number and definiteness insofar as these distinctions are marked by umlaut alternations, so attributive feminine adjectives are indeclinable. Predicative adjectives are inflected for number but not gender.


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Nominalised adjectives decline as masculine hard stem nouns and not as adjectives.
Nominalised adjectives decline as masculine hard stem nouns with umlaut pattern 1.


==Verbs==
==Verbs==