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== Grammar ==
== Grammar ==
=== Nouns ===
=== Nouns ===
Proto-Ăn Yidiș lost the neuter gender and the dual number, and had at least the nominative and the genitive. It's unknown whether the vocative survived outside a few words. The accusative and dative were replaced by the nominative; the genitive now marked definite objects of verbal nouns much like Hebrew את. Possessives began to be marked with the ''an X a(i)g Y'' construction.
Proto-Ăn Yidiș lost the neuter gender and the dual number, and had at least the nominative and the genitive. It's unknown whether the vocative survived outside a few words. The accusative and dative were replaced by the nominative; the genitive now marked definite objects of verbal nouns much like Hebrew את. Possessives began to be marked with the ''an X a(i)g Y'' construction.
 
In present-day Ăn Yidiș dialects (not counting Standard Ăn Yidiș), declension is best preserved in Southeastern European (Bohemian Hasidic) Ăn Yidiș, but even that has simplified somewhat to a lenition-free, genderless paradigm. Standard Ăn Yidiș grammar was based on the 19th century Hasidic dialects where declension was best preserved, presumably in an effort to get close to Irish declension.


sg gen/pl nom with palatalization and vowel change: mak 'son' // əm mak // ə viķ // miķ // nə miķ // nəm mak (בן // הבן // את הבן // בנים // הבנים // את הבנים)
sg gen/pl nom with palatalization and vowel change: mak 'son' // əm mak // ə viķ // miķ // nə miķ // nəm mak (בן // הבן // את הבן // בנים // הבנים // את הבנים)
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