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==Grammar== | ==Grammar== | ||
{{Main|Reardish grammar}} | {{Main|Reardish grammar}} | ||
Nouns decline for five cases: nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, instrumental. (A sixth case, the vocative, is highly contentious.); three genders: masculine, feminine, neuter; and two numbers; singukar, and plural (Reardish has a fully in tact duel declension, but it is only in pronouns and verbs). | |||
Pronouns decline largely the same as nouns, except for having a duel in the first and second persons. The plural third person pronouns have been entirely leveled, so the masculine, feminine, and neuter third person plurals decline identically, though a formal "Archaic masculine" is retained, and has been shifting to have the usage of a formal third person plural. In casual speech, this "Archaic masculine" is instead used as a gender-neutral (or even genderless) pronoun. | |||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
===Adjectives and Determiners=== | ===Adjectives and Determiners=== | ||
===Adverbs=== | ===Adverbs=== | ||
===Numbers=== | ===Numbers=== | ||
===Syntax=== | ===Syntax=== | ||
====Constituent order==== | ====Constituent order==== | ||
The word order is mostly free, the base order is SOV, but this is subject to change when importance needs to be stressed on one word. | The word order is mostly free, the base order is SOV, but this is subject to change when importance needs to be stressed on one word. | ||
====Noun phrase==== | ====Noun phrase==== | ||
====Verb phrase==== | ====Verb phrase==== | ||
====Sentence phrase==== | ====Sentence phrase==== | ||
====Dependent clauses==== | ====Dependent clauses==== | ||
==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||
==Example texts== | ==Example texts== | ||