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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 as follows:
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==

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