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Like our Slavic, Albionian has masculine, feminine and neuter genders, and has the same gender markers as our Slavic. Gender-neutral forms are sometimes created by concatenating masculine and feminine endings. | Like our Slavic, Albionian has masculine, feminine and neuter genders, and has the same gender markers as our Slavic. Gender-neutral forms are sometimes created by concatenating masculine and feminine endings. | ||
Modern Standard Netažin nouns and adjectives have retained five of the seven Proto-Slavic cases: nominative, dative, genitive, allative from the PSlav accusative after prepositions, and vocative. (Dialects differ in the number of cases; some conservative dialects retain all 7 Proto-Slavic cases, while some dialects, particularly in Cualand, have lost case entirely.) The nominative is used for both subjects and direct objects; the dative fills the role of dative nouns and of the locative after some prepositions in our Slavic languages. The instrumental (''instrumentaùl'') is semi-productive in forming adverbs and expressions, e.g. '' | Modern Standard Netažin nouns and adjectives have retained five of the seven Proto-Slavic cases: nominative, dative, genitive, allative from the PSlav accusative after prepositions, and vocative. (Dialects differ in the number of cases; some conservative dialects retain all 7 Proto-Slavic cases, while some dialects, particularly in Cualand, have lost case entirely.) The nominative is used for both subjects and direct objects; the dative fills the role of dative nouns and of the locative after some prepositions in our Slavic languages. The instrumental (''instrumentaùl'') is semi-productive in forming adverbs and expressions, e.g. ''prawdau'' 'really'; ''beagom'' 'during'; ''wuzglaindom'' 'owing to, in view of'; ''pomauthi'' 'with, using'; ''inaìmi slowai'' 'in other words'. | ||
The instrumental has been replaced with the dative in the following way: | The instrumental has been replaced with the dative in the following way: | ||
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*Predicate nouns and adjectives that denote becoming or ''change'' of state. | *Predicate nouns and adjectives that denote becoming or ''change'' of state. | ||
Some nouns have different stems for zero and nonzero endings: ''den'' 'day (nom.)' > ''dnea'' 'days (nom.)'; '' | Some nouns have different stems for zero and nonzero endings: ''den'' 'day (nom.)' > ''dnea'' 'days (nom.)'; ''caùn'' 'horse (nom.)' > ''caunea'' 'horses (nom.)'. | ||
====Some hard stem declensions==== | ====Some hard stem declensions==== | ||
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