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 ==Grammar==
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-===Adjectives and adverbs===
+{{main|Evonish grammar}}
-Adjective declension only occurs on attributive adjectives. With some adjectives, an umlaut occurs such as old, ölder, and öldest. Many adverbs are not derived from any other word class.
+===Morphology===
+====Nouns====
+Nouns in Evonish are declined to indicate their grammatical role in the sentence.
+=====Declensions=====
+The direct case is used as the main case of nouns, when not in possessive or vocative form. All noun cases are used in combination with the cases represented by determiners, with the exception of vocative.
+Possessive and genitive ''are'' two different grammatical cases. The plural genitive ending is used in compound words (much like kennings).
+{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable" style="width: 500px; "
+! colspan = "4"|Noun Declension
+|-
+!Class I
+!Direct
+!Possessive
+!Vocative
+|-
+!Singular
+| -
+| -es
+|o-
+|-
+!Plural
+| -as
+| -a
+|o- -as
+|-
+!Class II
+!Direct
+!Possessive
+!Vocative
+|-
+!Singular
+| -
+| -s
+|o-
+|-
+!Plural
+| -en
+| -ena
+|o- - en
+|}
+====Adjectives and adverbs====
+Adjectives decline only in an attributive position, they do not in a predicate situation. Cf. [[w:German language|German]] ''die schwarze Magd'' vs ''die Magd ist schwarz''.
+Some adjectives undergo umlaut, such as old, ölder, and öldest.
+Many Evonish adverbs are not derived from any other word class.
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-===Nouns===
-====Declensions====
-The direct case is used as the main case of nouns, when not in possessive or vocative form. All noun cases are used in combination with the cases represented by determiners, with the exception of vocative. Possessive and genitive ''are'' two different grammatical cases. The plural genitive ending is used in compound words (much like kennings).
-{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="wikitable" style="width: 500px; "
-! colspan = "4"|Noun Declension
-|-
-!Class I
-!Direct
-!Possessive
-!Vocative
-|-
-!Singular
-| -
-| -es
-|o-
-|-
-!Plural
-| -as
-| -a
-|o- -as
-|-
-!Class II
-!Direct
-!Possessive
-!Vocative
-|-
-!Singular
-| -
-| -s
-|o-
-|-
-!Plural
-| -en
-| -ena
-|o- - en
-|}
 ===Verbs===