Verse:Irta (Old)/Judeo-Mandarin: Difference between revisions

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===Nouns===

Like Irish and Hebrew, An Yidiș has masculine and feminine genders. Hebrew words (usually) have the same gender as in Hebrew. ~~Case only survives vestigially~~:

Like Irish and Hebrew, An Yidiș has masculine and feminine genders. Hebrew words (usually) have the same gender as in Hebrew. Declension is highly simplified compared to Irish:

* The genitive only ~~survives~~ in ~~certain expressions and~~ compounds.

* The nominative is used the most often, including as prepositional objects.

* The old genitive is only used to mark definite objects of verbs, similarly to Hebrew ''et'', and almost never possessors. The genitive is no longer productive in head-initial compounds.

* The vocative survives only for ''Zie'' 'God': ''ă Zhey!'' /əˈjej/, or the fixed expression ''(oy) mă-Zhey!'' 'oh my God'. To call family members, forms such as ''mă-mhoŗ!'' 'my mother!' are used.

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Concatenation exists but is more derivational, analogous to compounding in English. In native head-initial concatenations, the second element of a compound is treated as an adjective for mutation purposes:

* ''ła-'''b'''~~ŗeth~~'' (m) 'birthday' (''ła'' 'day' is masculine)

* ''ła-'''b'''ŗethă'' (m) 'birthday' (''ła'' 'day' is masculine)

* ''călă-'''fh'''~~erthiņ~~'' (f) 'rainforest' (''călă'' 'forest' is feminine).

* ''călă-'''fh'''erthiņă'' (f) 'rainforest' (''călă'' 'forest' is feminine).

Native plurals are more regular, marked with mostly ''-ăn'', or less commonly

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 ===Nouns===
-Like Irish and Hebrew, An Yidiș has masculine and feminine genders. Hebrew words (usually) have the same gender as in Hebrew. Case only survives vestigially:
+Like Irish and Hebrew, An Yidiș has masculine and feminine genders. Hebrew words (usually) have the same gender as in Hebrew. Declension is highly simplified compared to Irish:
-* The genitive only survives in certain expressions and compounds.
+* The nominative is used the most often, including as prepositional objects.
+* The old genitive is only used to mark definite objects of verbs, similarly to Hebrew ''et'', and almost never possessors. The genitive is no longer productive in head-initial compounds.
 * The vocative survives only for ''Zie'' 'God': ''ă Zhey!'' /əˈjej/, or the fixed expression ''(oy) mă-Zhey!'' 'oh my God'. To call family members, forms such as ''mă-mhoŗ!'' 'my mother!' are used.
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 Concatenation exists but is more derivational, analogous to compounding in English. In native head-initial concatenations, the second element of a compound is treated as an adjective for mutation purposes:
-* ''ła-'''b'''ŗeth'' (m) 'birthday' (''ła'' 'day' is masculine)
+* ''ła-'''b'''ŗethă'' (m) 'birthday' (''ła'' 'day' is masculine)
-* ''călă-'''fh'''erthiņ'' (f) 'rainforest' (''călă'' 'forest' is feminine).
+* ''călă-'''fh'''erthiņă'' (f) 'rainforest' (''călă'' 'forest' is feminine).
 Native plurals are more regular, marked with mostly ''-ăn'', or less commonly