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 Nouns can be declensed in accordance with three different genders and two numbers. There also exists a case system featuring five grammatical cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative and locative), but, with nouns at least, only the nominative and the genitive are still in use.
-Nouns are declensed as follows:
+The morpheme order for Undernederlandsk is:
+{| class="wikitable" style="background:white;"
+|-
+| Noun stem
+| (Plural)
+| (Definite article)
+| (Genitive ''-s'')
+|}
+====Plural forms====
+Nouns can be declensed in accordance with two grammatical numbers: singular and plural. These are further declensed in accordance with the three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. There is also a specific set of declensions for words ending on vowels.
+The '''first plural declension''' is reserved for masculine nouns ending with a consonant. These are "-er" for indefinite nouns and "-erne" for definite nouns.
+====Articles, definite forms and plurals====
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 "dog"<br> "eye"<br> "tooth"
 |}
+====Genitive====
+For the genitive, the suffix "-s" is added to the word. If, however, the word already ends on "-s", the suffix is instead rendered as "-sessa". Thus, e.g. "the child's" would be ''barnets'', but "a house's" would be ''hussessa''.
+The genitive is the only real non-nominative case in usage in the official version of the Undernederlandsk language, but can be rendered differently in certain dialects, most specifically the [[Ænsksk]] and [[Berlinsk]] dialects.
 ==Morphology==