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== Grammar == | == Grammar == | ||
=== Nouns === | === Nouns === | ||
Proto-Ăn Yidiș lost the neuter gender and the dual number, and had at least the nominative and the genitive. It's unknown whether the vocative survived. The accusative and dative were replaced by the nominative; | Proto-Ăn Yidiș lost the neuter gender and the dual number, and had at least the nominative and the genitive. It's unknown whether the vocative survived. The accusative and dative were replaced by the nominative; the genitive now marked definite objects of verbal nouns much like Hebrew את. Possessives began to be marked with the ''an X a(i)g Y'' construction. | ||
The reason that the genitive case became unstable in Proto-Ăn Yidiș is usually explained as a result of an influx of Hebrew words, which had no obvious separate genitive forms that didn't rely on mutations or articles. | The reason that the genitive case became unstable in Proto-Ăn Yidiș is usually explained as a result of an influx of Hebrew words, which had no obvious separate genitive forms that didn't rely on mutations or articles. | ||