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| ižahueriþ || ižahueriþ ||align="left"| ''each of them''
| ižahueriþ || ižahueriþ ||align="left"| ''each of them''
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==Numbers==
===Declinable Numerals===
====Singular (‘one’)====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle"
|-
!width=65px|  !!width=65px| Nom. !!width=65px| Gen. !!width=65px| Dat. !!width=65px| Acc.
|-
!masc.
| ǣns ||rowspan=2| ǣnis ||rowspan=2| ǣnatma || ǣnan
|-
!neu.
| ǣn(at) || ǣn(at)
|-
!fem.
| ǣna || ǣnažas || ǣna || ǣna
|-
|}
====Dual (‘two, both’)====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle"
! !!colspan=4| Numeral !! !! colspan=4| Distributive
|-
!width=65px|  !!width=65px| Nom. !!width=65px| Gen. !!width=65px| Dat. !!width=65px| Acc.
!style="border-top: none;border-bottom: none" width=10px rowspan=4|
!width=65px| Nom. !!width=65px| Gen. !!width=65px| Dat. !!width=65px| Acc.
|-
! masc.
| tuǣ ||rowspan=3| tuǣǧa ||rowspan=3| tuǣm || tuans
| bǣ ||rowspan=3| bǣǧa ||rowspan=3| bǣm || bans
|-
! neu.
| tuā || tuā
| bā || bā
|-
! fem.
| tuōs || tuōs
| bōs || bōs
|}
====Trial (‘three, all three’) ====
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle"
! !!colspan=4| Numeral !! !! colspan=4| Distributive
|-
!width=65px| !!width=65px| Nom. !!width=65px| Gen. !!width=65px| Dat. !!width=65px| Acc.
!style="border-top: none;border-bottom: none" width=10px rowspan=4|
!width=65px| Nom. !!width=65px| Gen. !!width=65px| Dat. !!width=65px| Acc.
|-
! masc.
| þrīs ||rowspan=3| þriža ||rowspan=3| þrim || þrins
| þrǣ ||rowspan=3| þrǣža ||rowspan=3| þrǣm || þrans
|-
! neu.
| þrī, þriža || þrī, þriža
| þrā || þrā
|-
! fem.
| þrīs || þrins
| þreǧis || þreǧis
|-
|}
===Undeclinable Numerals===
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle"
|-
! !!width=100px| # !!width=100px| 1# !!width=100px| 2# ||width=100px| #0 !!width=100px| #00 !!width=100px| #000 !!width=100px| #000
|-
!  0
| (nǣns) || tǣjun (tǣn) || tuǣtiǧis|| ''-tiǧis''|| ''tēhund'' || ''þūsunde'' || ''-ljǭn''
|-
!  1
| ([[Valthungian#Singular_.28.E2.80.98one.E2.80.99.29|ǣns]]) || ǣnlif || tuǣtiǧis ǣns|| ''tǣjun'' || ǣn hund || ǣna þūsunde || miljǭn
|-
!  2
| ([[Valthungian#Dual_.28.E2.80.98two.2C_both.E2.80.99.29|tuǣ]]) || tualif || tuǣtiǧi tuǣ|| tuǣtiǧis || tuā hunda || tuōs þūsunǧis || biljǭn
|-
!  3
| ([[Valthungian#Trial_.28.E2.80.98three.2C_all_three.E2.80.99.29|þrīs]]) || þrižatǣn || tuǣtiǧi þrīs|| þrīstiǧis || þrī hunda || þrīs þūsunǧis || þriljǭn
|-
!  4
| fiður (fiðra) || fiðratǣn || tuǣtiǧi fiður|| fiðratiǧis || fiður hunda || fiður þūsunǧis || friljǭn
|-
!  5
| fim || fimfatǣn || tuǣtiǧi fim|| fimtiǧis || fim hunda || fim þūsunǧis || fimfiljǭn
|-
!  6
| sǣs || sǣstatǣn || tuǣtiǧi sǣs|| sǣstiǧis || sǣs hunda || sǣs þūsunǧis || sǣsiljǭn
|-
!  7
| sivun (sivna) || sivnatǣn || tuǣtiǧi sivun|| sivnatiǧis || sivun hunda || sivun þūsunǧis || sivniljǭn
|-
!  8
| āta (āt) || ātatǣn || tuǣtiǧis āta|| ātatiǧis || āta hunda || āta þūsunǧis || ātatiljǭn
|-
!  9
| njun || njunatǣn || tuǣtiǧi njun|| njuntiǧis || njun hunda || njun þūsunǧis || njuniljǭn
|-
|}
The numbers in Valthungian – as in most languages – have gone through more phonological change than other words, and as a result, there are some irregularities.  Four numbers have two forms (some of which may be optional). There is also an innovated trial distributive (‘all three’), probably by analogy with the dual (''bǣ'' ‘both’). The number ‘one’, usually alternating with the indefinite article in most languages, is used merely for counting purposes, as an indefinite article is not used in Valthungian.
The number ‘four’ is ''fiður'', where we would normally expect **''fidur'' through regular sound change (specifically, the change of /d/ to /ð/ would normally be blocked by the following /w/ in ''*fidwōr''). There is also a further lenited form of ''fiðra'', which is optional when it stands alone, but standard in compounds. (Gothic also had two versions of ‘four’: ''fidwōr'' and a compound form ''fidur''.)
The number ‘seven’ has the expected form of ''sivun'', but also a lenited form of ''sivna'', again, required in compounds but otherwise optional. ‘Eight’ is ''āta'', but may optionally be lenited to ''āt''. (This is a newer innovation, and is not considered to be correct in writing.) Finally ‘ten’ is ''tǣjun'' or lenited ''tǣn'', the latter being used exclusively in the “teen” numbers.
For compounding numbers, Griutungi and Gothic separated each of the number’s components with the word ''jah'' (‘and’, now ''jā''), but Valthungian has dispensed with this and now uses ''i'' – possibly a shortened form of ''jā'' – only before the last component. For numbers ending with ''–tiǧis'', a further contraction has become standard, and the new suffix is shortened to ''–tiǧi'', e.g. ''þrīstiǧi fim'' ‘thirty-five’. ''Hund'' becomes ''hundi'' and ''hunda'' is also contracted to ''hund·i'', ''þūsunde'' to ''þūsund·i'', and ''þūsunǧis'' to ''þūsunǧi''. (Note the lack of apostrophic interpunct in ''-tiǧi'', ''hundi'', and ''þūsunǧi''.) No ''-i-'' is added before numbers beginning with a vowel, i.e. ''ǣn-'' and ''āta''.
Number terms higher than ‘thousand’ are ostensibly borrowed from Latin, though they contain their own Germanic innovations, e.g. ''þriljǭn'' ‘trillion’, ''fiðriljǭn'' ‘quadrillion’, ''fimfiljǭn'' ‘quintillion’, instead of the expected **''triljǭn'', **''kuaðriljǭn'', and **''kuintiljǭn''.
Another note concerning the higher numbers: Valthungian follows the ''[[w:Long_and_short_scale|short scale]]'' for higher numbers (whereas many European languages currently use the long scale); that is, each new number term is one thousand times larger than the previous term (whereas in the long scale, each new term is one million times larger). This is further confused by the now-standard European “hybrid” model where intermediate terms in the long scale are applied to the “thousands” with the suffix ‘-ard’. The following table is applicable to most modern standards:
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle"
|-
! N⁰ !! Numerals !!width=100px| Valthungian !!width=130px| Short !!width=130px| Hybrid !!width=130px| Long !!width=100px| Metric
|-
!  10³ 
|align="right"| 1,000 || þūsunde ||colspan=3 align="center"| thousand || '''k'''''ilo''
|-
!  10⁶ 
|align="right"| 1,000,000 || miljǭn ||colspan=3 align="center"| million || '''M'''''ega''
|-
!  10⁹ 
|align="right"| 1,000,000,000  || biljǭn || billion || milliard || thousand million || '''G'''''iga''
|-
!  10¹²
|align="right"| 1,000,000,000,000  || þriljǭn || trillion || billion || billion || '''T'''''era''
|-
!  10¹⁵
|align="right"| 1,000,000,000,000,000  || fiðriljǭn || quadrillion || billiard || thousand billion || '''P'''''eta''
|-
!  10¹⁸
|align="right"| 1,000,000,000,000,000,000  || fimfiljǭn || quintillion || trillion || trillion || '''E'''''xa''
|-
!  10²¹
|align="right"| 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000  || sǣsiljǭn || sextillion || trilliard || thousand trillion || '''Z'''''etta''
|-
!  10²⁴
|align="right"| 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000  || sivniljǭn || septillion || quadrillion || quadrillion || '''Y'''''otta''
|-
!  10²⁷
|align="right"| 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000  || ātatiljǭn || octillion || quadrilliard || thousand quadrillion || -
|-
!  10³⁰
|align="right"| 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 || njuniljǭn || nonillion || quintillion || quintillion || -
|-
|}
===Ordinal Numbers and Other Number Forms===
Ordinal numbers are usually formed by adding a dental suffix to the end of a number, though there is some suppletion for the first and second ordinals, and the third is irregular (just as is the case in English). In Proto-Germanic and Gothic, all of the ordinals except for first and second took only the weak declension, but all ordinals now take both strong and weak declensions according to standard rules of adjectives.
The multiplicative numbers arise from a conflation of the word ''þīfs'' ‘time, occurrence’ with the genitive singular form of the ordinal number, resulting in a robust albeit historically incorrect derivation system. In Griutungi, the concept of multiple occurrences was expressed simply as a number and the accusative of the word ''þīhs'' ‘time, occurrence’: ''ǣn þīhs'' ‘once’, ''tua þīhsa'' ‘twice’, ''þrija þīhsa'' ‘three times’, and so on. Gradually these constructions fused together (Old Valthungian: ''aenþijhs'', ''tuaþijhsa'', ''þrijþijhsa''…) and perhaps based on the more common analogue of ‘twice’, around the time of Early Middle Valthungian they were reanalyzed as a genitive ending affixed to an ordinal (Middle Valthungian: ''ǣnþis'', ''tuaþis'', ''þriþis''…) The forms of the first three multiplicatives aren’t even particularly odd, in terms of language evolution, but that apparent ordinal + genitive construction was then applied analogously to the rest of the numbers, so where we might otherwise expect ''fim þīfs'' ‘five times’ to have become ''fimþis'', instead we find the ordinal form ''fimftis''.
Fractions are formed from the archaic genitive plural form of numbers followed by ''dǣlaro'', literally ‘of ___ parts’, e.g. ¾ = þrīs fiðra dǣlaro = ‘three of four parts’. (This is equivalent to the modern German construction of affixing ''-tel'' to the end of numbers, e.g. ''drittel'', ''viertel'', ''zehntel'', &c., ''-tel'' being a direct equivalent of ''dǣl-''.) The genitive numbers are a holdover from ancient times, and are rarely used outside of the context of fractions; in fact, most fractions are formed by simply adding a suffix of ''-a'' to the end of a number, without any consideration that it might have once been a genitive.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle"
|-
!rowspan=2|  
!colspan=3| Ordinal
!colspan=2 rowspan=2| Multiplicative
!colspan=2 rowspan=2| Fractional
|-
! (Strong)
! (Weak)
!  
|-
! 1
| frumist, frums
| frumista, fruma
| first
| ǣniþis
| once, one time
|colspan=2| --
|-
! 2
|colspan=2| anðra
| second
| tuaþis
| twice, two times
| halbž, tuǣǧa dǣlaro
| half
|-
! 3
| þrīǧis
| þrīǧa
| third
| þriþis
| thrice, three times
| þriža dǣlaro
| third
|-
! 4
| fiðraþs
| fiðraða
| fourth
| fiðurþis
| four times
| fiðra dǣlaro
| quarter/fourth
|-
! 5
| fimft
| fimfta
| fifth
| fimftis
| five times
| fimfa dǣlaro
| fifth
|-
! 6
| sǣst
| sǣsta
| sixth
| sǣstis
| six times
| sǣsa dǣlaro
| sixth
|-
! 7
| sivunþs
| sivunþa
| seventh
| sivunþis
| seven times
| sivna dǣlaro
| seventh
|-
! 8
| ātuþs
| ātuða
| eighth
| ātuðis
| eight times
| āta dǣlaro
| eighth
|-
! 9
| njunþs
| njunþa
| ninth
| njunþis
| nine times
| njuna dǣlaro
| ninth
|-
! 10
| tǣjunþs
| tǣjunþa
| tenth
| tǣjunþis
| ten times
| tǣjun dǣlaro
| tenth
|-
! 11
| ǣnlift
| ǣnlifta
| eleventh
| ǣnliftis
| eleven times
| ǣnliva dǣlaro
| eleventh
|-
! 12
| tuālift
| tuālifta
| twelfth
| tuāliftis
| twelve times
| tuāliva dǣlaro
| twelfth
|-
! 13
| þrižatǣnþs
| þrižatǣnþa
| thirteenth
| þrižatǣnþis
| thirteen times
| þrižatǣjun dǣlaro
| thirteenth
|-
! 20
| tuǣtiǧist
| twǣtiǧista
| twentieth
| tuǣtiǧistis
| twenty times
| tuǣtiǧa dǣlaro
| twentieth
|-
! 100
| hundaþs
| hundaða
| hundredth
| hundaðis
| a hundred times
| hunda dǣlaro
| hundredth
|-
! 1,000
| þūsundiþs
| þūsundiða
| thousandth
| þūsundiðis
| a thousand times
| þūsunǧa dǣlaro
| thousandth
|-
! 1,000,000
| miljǭnþs
| miljǭnþa
| millionth
| miljǭnþis
| a million times
| miljǭna dǣlaro
| millionth
|-
|}
===Alternative Numbers===
The Gothic number system, modeled after the Greek system (in turn modeled after the Hebrew), which used the letters of the alphabet instead of separate unique characters, continued to be used well into the middle ages ([[Middle Valthungian]]), and certain taboo numbers came to be called by their character representation rather than their numeric form.  Primarily among these numbers was ‘13’, which was written in Gothic as ''·ig·''.  This also occurred with the numbers ‘113’ (''rig''), ‘213’ (''sig''), ‘313’ (''tig''), ‘413’ (''wig''), and ‘513’ (''fig'').  (This was not mirrored in the higher numbers of the hundreds, because most of those combinations would have been unpronounceable.)
The number ‘19’ is also sometimes called ''iþ'' by the same formulation.
Certain slang terms have also developed out of this system, in reverse, as it were. For example, the homophony of hortative particle ''iþ'' with the number ''19'' gives rise to a nominal form ''þat njunatǣn'' referring to a duty or obligation. Similarly, a ‘road’ or ‘highway’ is sometimes referred to as a ‘413’ (''fiður-þrižatǣn''), written ''wig'' (the accusative of ''wiǧ'' (‘road’).
A much more recent slang term that has evolved from this system is the use of the number ‘843’ to represent the (unpronounceable) letter combination ''·omg·''.


==Determiners==
==Determiners==
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