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 Niemish nouns are inflected for three cases (nominative-accusative, genitive and dative) and two numbers (singular and plural). In addition, definite nouns are marked with a suffix that evolved out of postposed Gothic definite articles, functionally giving every noun two declensions for singular and plural.
-All nouns belong to one of two genders: masculine and feminine. The neuter gender of medieval Niemish has fallen together with masculine except in the Westlandic dialect, although the neuter plural still survives as an irregular plural for some formerly neuter nouns and has even become generalised to mark the plural of masculine nouns that commonly occur as a group, especially in pairs, often in parallel with a regular plural with a less specialised sense.
+All nouns belong to one of three genders: masculine, feminine and neuter. The neuter gender has fallen together with masculine in the Westlandic dialect, although the neuter plural still survives as an irregular plural for some formerly neuter nouns and has even become generalised to mark the plural of masculine nouns that commonly occur as a group, especially in pairs, often in parallel with a regular plural with a less specialised sense.
-There are three classes of masculine noun:
+There are three classes of masculine or neuter noun:
 *hard stem (may be subject to umlaut) ''[[Contionary:wich|wich]]'' ("road, way")
 *soft stem ''[[Contionary:kunnj|kunnj]]'' ("tribe, race")
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 In addition, nouns with polysyllabic stems may be subject to syncopation, although this does not affect the class into which they are sorted.
-====Masculine nouns====
+====Masculine and neuter nouns====
 <small>'''Hard stem nouns'''</small>