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A regular Brittainese noun belongs to one of three main declensions, a group of nouns with similar inflected forms. The declensions are identified by the oblique singular form of the noun. | A regular Brittainese noun belongs to one of three main declensions, a group of nouns with similar inflected forms. The declensions are identified by the oblique singular form of the noun. | ||
====First declension==== | ====First declension==== | ||
The '''first declension''' is the largest of the declensions and the most productive, and contains many irregularities and subgroups. It is | The '''first declension''' is the largest of the declensions and the most productive, and contains many irregularities and subgroups. It is characterized by the fact that nominative and oblique forms have identical endings in both the plural and singular, although they are not always identical. | ||
It contains almost all feminine nouns, as well as a few masculine nouns. It is the main declension assigned to foreign loan-words that don't fit into any other declension, such as ''tsunámi''. It is descended from the Vulgar Latin first declension (which in turn comprises the Classical Latin fifth declension) as well as feminine third declensions, soft-stemmed masculine third declension and some neuters. | It contains almost all feminine nouns, as well as a few masculine nouns. It is the main declension assigned to foreign loan-words that don't fit into any other declension, such as ''tsunámi''. It is descended from the Vulgar Latin first declension (which in turn comprises the Classical Latin fifth declension) as well as feminine third declensions, soft-stemmed masculine third declension and some neuters. | ||
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|| sorour || journad | || sorour || journad | ||
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====Second declension==== | |||
The '''second declension''' is the smallest of the two inherited declensions and is no longer productive. It contains almost exclusively masculine nouns (with one feminine exception ''mans'' "hand"). It is characterized by a nominative singular ''-s'' and oblique singular ''-Ø''. | |||
It is mainly descended from the Latin second, third and fourth declension, as well as from many neuter nouns. Note however that, unlike in other Romance lagnuages and notably French, many nouns that were originally neuter became feminine first declension in Brittainese (notably body parts that come in pairs). | |||
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! rowspan="2" | | |||
! colspan="2" | ''[[Contionary:cavalls|cavalls]]'' <br> horse (m.) | |||
! colspan="2" | ''[[Contionary:mans|mans]]'' <br> hand (f.) | |||
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! Singular !! Plural !! Singular !! Plural | |||
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! Nominative | |||
| cavalls || cavaill || mans || main | |||
|- | |||
! Oblique | |||
| cavall || cavalles || man || manes | |||
|} | |||
====Third declension==== | |||
The '''third declension''' is not inherited from Latin, but rather borrowed from the Classical languages during the Renaissance as an effort to preserve the newly-borrowed words' original declension. As these words became more wide-spread, these inflections simplified and became more general to create the modern-day third declension. | |||
This declension is productive in mostly high-educated vocabulary, and during later years, some words from non-classical languages have been attributed this declension (although they were never inflected this way in their original languages), such as ''bábuschka'' (from [[w:Russian_language|Russian]] ба́бушка). It has a nominative singular ''-s'' or ''-Ø'' and oblique singular ''-m''. | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||