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===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||
Adjectives have been radically simplified since Gothic | Adjectives have been radically simplified since Gothic. All adjectives have hard stems and all inflectional endings have been lost, except in predicative adjectives where the plural ending ''-s'' is preserved. | ||
Attributive adjectives are only marked for gender, case, number and definiteness insofar as these distinctions are marked by umlaut alternations, so feminine attributive adjectives are indeclinable. Other than retaining the plural ending ''-s'', predicative adjectives are declined identically to attributive ones. | Attributive adjectives are only marked for gender, case, number and definiteness insofar as these distinctions are marked by umlaut alternations, so feminine attributive adjectives are indeclinable. Other than retaining the plural ending ''-s'', predicative adjectives are declined identically to attributive ones. | ||