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Nouns decline for five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental. (A sixth case, the vocative, is highly contentious.); three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter; and two numbers | Nouns decline for five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental. (A sixth case, the vocative, is highly contentious.); three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter; and two numbers: singular, and plural (Reardish has a fully in tact duel declension, but it is only in pronouns and verbs). | ||
Pronouns decline largely the same as nouns, except for having a duel in the first and second persons. The plural third person pronouns have been entirely leveled, so the masculine, feminine, and neuter third person plurals decline identically, though a formal "Archaic masculine" is retained, and has been shifting to have the usage of a formal third person plural.{{efn|In casual speech, this "Archaic masculine" is instead used as an inanimate pronoun, effectively shifting it to an animacy distinction.}} | Pronouns decline largely the same as nouns, except for having a duel in the first and second persons. The plural third person pronouns have been entirely leveled, so the masculine, feminine, and neuter third person plurals decline identically, though a formal "Archaic masculine" is retained, and has been shifting to have the usage of a formal third person plural.{{efn|In casual speech, this "Archaic masculine" is instead used as an inanimate pronoun, effectively shifting it to an animacy distinction.}} | ||