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===Nouns===
===Nouns===
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:
Like Irish and Hebrew, An Yidiș has masculine and feminine genders. Hebrew words (usually) have the same gender as in Hebrew. Declension is simplified compared to Irish and Scottish Gaelic:
* The nominative is used the most often, including as prepositional objects; the Old Irish accusative and prepositional cases are lost.
* The nominative is used the most often, including as prepositional objects; the Old Irish accusative and prepositional cases are lost.
* The inherited 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 inherited 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.