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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 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 | The morpheme order for Undernederlandsk is: | ||
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| Noun stem | |||
| (Plural) | |||
| (Definite article) | |||
| (Genitive ''-s'') | |||
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====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" | "dog"<br> "eye"<br> "tooth" | ||
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====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== | ==Morphology== | ||