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All nouns belong to one of two genders: masculine and feminine. The neuter gender of medieval Niemish has fallen together with masculine except in the Westlandic dialect, although the neuter plural still survives as an irregular plural for some formerly neuter nouns and has even become generalised to mark the plural of masculine nouns that commonly occur as a group, especially in pairs, often in parallel with a regular plural with a less specialised sense. | All nouns belong to one of two genders: masculine and feminine. The neuter gender of medieval Niemish has fallen together with masculine except in the Westlandic dialect, although the neuter plural still survives as an irregular plural for some formerly neuter nouns and has even become generalised to mark the plural of masculine nouns that commonly occur as a group, especially in pairs, often in parallel with a regular plural with a less specialised sense. | ||
There are three classes of masculine noun: | |||
*hard stem (may be subject to umlaut) | |||
*soft stem | |||
*mixed (may be subject to umlaut in the singular) | |||
There are four classes of feminine noun: | |||
*hard simple stem | |||
*soft simple stem | |||
*hard N-stem | |||
*soft N-stem | |||
In addition, nouns with polysyllabic stems may be subject to syncopation, although this does not affect the class they are sorted into. | |||
==Verbs== | ==Verbs== | ||