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-===Nouns===
+===Nominals===
-Nouns have dropped their definite forms in favor of an independent article, {{l|snon|hi}}.
+====Nouns====
+Scots Norse nouns decline for three cases (direct, genitive, and dative), two genders (masculine and feminine), and two numbers (singular and plural). The direct comes the merging of the nominative and the accusative, the two having fell together due to sound changes. The definite forms distinctive of the Nordic languages have been dropped in favor of the standalone article {{l|snon|hi}}.
-Direct plurals of native words are almost always formed with {{l|snon|-ar}} when masculine, or {{l|snon|-ir}} when feminine, though remnants of umlaut also exist. Nouns from Gàidhlig most often instead use {{l|snon|-an}}.
+The following set of tables will display a few examples of the native masculine pattern.
+{{inflection-table-top|palette=blue|title=}}
+! rowspan=3 |
+! colspan=2 class=outer | {{l|snon|velph}} ("puppy")
+! rowspan=11 class=separator |
+! colspan=2 class=outer | {{l|snon|a}} ("fragrance")
+! rowspan=11 class=separator |
+! colspan=2 class=outer | {{l|snon|almh}} ("elm tree")
+|-
+! colspan=2 | indefinite
+! colspan=2 | indefinite
+! colspan=2 | indefinite
+|-
+! class=secondary | singular
+! class=secondary | plural
+! class=secondary | singular
+! class=secondary | plural
+! class=secondary | singular
+! class=secondary | plural
+|-
+! direct
+| velph
+| velphar
+| a
+| anghar
+| almh
+| almhar
+|-
+! genitive
+| velphs
+| veolph
+| az
+| angh
+| alz
+| almh
+|-
+! dative
+| velph
+| velphu
+| aengh
+| anghu
+| aelmh
+| almhu
+|-
+! rowspan=2 |
+! colspan=2 | definite
+! colspan=2 | definite
+! colspan=2 | definite
+|-
+! class=secondary | singular
+! class=secondary | plural
+! class=secondary | singular
+! class=secondary | plural
+! class=secondary | singular
+! class=secondary | plural
+|-
+! direct
+| hi belph
+| hìnhar velphar
+| hi n'a
+| hìnhar anghar
+| hi n'almh
+| hìnhar almhar
+|-
+! genitive
+| hiz velphs
+| hionh vheolph
+| hiz az
+| hionh h'angh
+| hiz alz
+| hionh h'almh
+|-
+! dative
+| hình belph
+| hìnhu belphu
+| hình n'aengh
+| hìnhu n'anghu
+| hình n'aelmh
+| hìnhu n'almhu
+|-
+{{inflection-table-bottom|notes={{{15|}}}}}
-{{snon-decl-noun-m|v|elph|2o=eolph}}
+While both ''a'' and ''almh'' appear irregular, they are not true irregular nouns, as the forms are entirely expected. ''a'' comes from older ''ang'', the nasal being lost in the direct singular, but preserved in other forms. The genitive singular taking -z is from eclipsis of the normal -s due to the roots' nasal.
-{{snon-decl-noun-f|v|alph|2e=aelph}}
+The definite forms typically include a vocative, formed with the particle {{l|snon|a}} plus the direct form. These are excluded here as it is not a "true" case.
 ===Adjectives===