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===Grammar=== | ===Grammar=== | ||
====Nouns==== | ====Nouns==== | ||
There are two grammatical genders for nouns; common and neuter. Common gender nouns account for approximately 75% of nouns. The | There are two grammatical genders for nouns; common and neuter. Common gender nouns account for approximately 75% of nouns. The common gender originates in the merger of the Feminine and Masculine gender in earlier phases of the source languages. | ||
Nouns have two cases, a common subject/object case and a genitive/possessive case. | Nouns have two cases, a common subject/object case and a genitive/possessive case. | ||
The definite status of a a noun is formed by adding '''-en''' to the stem in the case of common gender nouns, '''-et''' in the case of neuter | The definite status of a a noun is formed by adding '''-en''' to the stem in the case of common gender nouns, '''-et''' in the case of neuter nouns and '''-erne''' in the case of plural nouns. However this changes to a pre-noun definite article when it is preceeded by an adjective. | ||
The plural of nouns is commonly formed by adding '''-er''' to the stem. However this suffix can be agglutinated to other suffixes that mark case and definite status. Many neuter nouns don't add '''-er''' and have same form in plural as in singular. There is also a small minority of nouns that form the plural with a change of the stem-vowel by ''umlaut''. | |||
The plural of nouns is commonly formed by adding '''-er''' to the stem. However this suffix can be agglutinated to other suffixes that mark | |||
case and definite status. Many neuter nouns don't add '''-er''' and have same form in plural as in singular. There is also a small minority of | |||
nouns that form the plural with a change of the stem-vowel by ''umlaut''. | |||
====Pronouns==== | ====Pronouns==== | ||