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===Historical Forms=== | ===Historical Forms=== | ||
While the masculine and feminine genders in Old Norse collapsed into the common gender in Vinnish, some remnants of the old masculine/feminine system linger in Vinnish. | While the masculine and feminine genders in Old Norse collapsed into the common gender in Vinnish, some remnants of the old masculine/feminine system linger in Vinnish. These features, while attested in older texts such as the Vinnish Bible, were moribund even around the 1600s. | ||
====Masculine Forms==== | |||
In more archaic texts in Vinnish, a naturally or semantically masculine weak adjective can optionally take the ending -i in the nominative singular. In all other cases of the noun, the ending -e is used. | |||
{{interlinear|number=(4) | |||
|sterk''i'' sveinen | |||
|strong-MASC-DEF youth-SG-NOM-DEF | |||
|the strong young man}} | |||
====Feminine Forms==== | |||
In older Vinnish texts, a naturally or semantically feminine strong adjective can optionally take u-umlaut in the nominative singular and show an ending of -e in the accusative. | |||
{{interlinear|number=(5) | |||
|fåger kone | |||
|beautiful-FEM-SG-NOM woman-SG-NOM | |||
|beautiful woman}} | |||
====Plural Forms==== | |||
In older Vinnish texts, plural weak adjectives can take u-umlaut in all cases. | |||
{{interlinear|number=(6) | |||
|kåld skip | |||
|cold-NEUT-PL-DEF ship-PL-NOM | |||
|the cold ships}} | |||
==Verbs== | ==Verbs== | ||