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===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||
Adjectives have been radically simplified since Gothic. All adjectives have hard stems and all inflectional endings have been lost | Adjectives have been radically simplified since Gothic. All adjectives have hard stems and all inflectional endings have been lost. | ||
Attributive adjectives are only marked for gender, case, number and definiteness insofar as these distinctions are marked by umlaut alternations, so feminine attributive adjectives are indeclinable. | Attributive adjectives are only marked for gender, case, number and definiteness insofar as these distinctions are marked by umlaut alternations, so feminine attributive adjectives are indeclinable. Predicative adjectives are also indeclinable, and always identical in form to the masculine indefinite singular. | ||
Nominalised adjectives decline | Nominalised adjectives decline as masculine hard stem nouns and not as adjectives. | ||
==Verbs== | ==Verbs== | ||