• the same word pattern is called a declension. There are five grammatical cases in Old High German. A complete declension consists of five grammatical cases...
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    Old High German (OHG; German: Althochdeutsch (Ahdt., Ahd.)) is the earliest stage of the German language, conventionally identified as the period from...
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  • In linguistics, declension (verb: to decline) is the changing of the form of a word, generally to express its syntactic function in the sentence, by way...
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  • Latin declension is the set of patterns according to which Latin words are declined—that is, have their endings altered to show grammatical case, number...
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  • baron. IIIc nouns are an Old French creation and have no clear Latin antecedent. IIId nouns represent various other third-declension Latin nouns with stress...
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  • ("mistress", literally "bread kneader"). As in several other old Germanic languages, Old English declensions include five cases: nominative, accusative, dative...
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  • Lithuanian has a declension system that is similar to declension systems in ancient Indo-European languages, such as Sanskrit, Latin or Ancient Greek...
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    Old Saxon (German: altsächsische Sprache), also known as Old Low German (German: altniederdeutsche Sprache), was a Germanic language and the earliest...
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  • In Russian grammar, the system of declension is elaborate and complex. Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, demonstratives, most numerals and other particles are...
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    Swedish. Modern German gradually developed from Old High German, which in turn developed from Proto-Germanic during the Early Middle Ages. German is an inflected...
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  • of declension are: I: Feminine nouns usually have the same form in all four cases. a) nom., acc. die Frau, dat., gen. der Frau Exceptions are: Old declensions...
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  • comparison of the IPA system with those used in learners' materials. The declension of Irish nouns, the definite article, and the adjectives is discussed...
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  • Early New High German (ENHG) is a term for the period in the history of the German language generally defined, following Wilhelm Scherer, as the period...
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    advanced stage in Middle Dutch. Old Dutch reflects an intermediate form between Old Saxon and Old High German. Like Old High German, it preserved the three different...
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  • a declension. There are five grammatical cases in Gothic with a few traces of an old sixth instrumental case.[citation needed] A complete declension consists...
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  • nouns only have singular and plural forms. Many remnants of former case declensions remain in the Dutch language, but few of them are productive. One exception...
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  • case declension paradigms for nouns are shown below. Some masculine words ending in -ā (like pitā and kartā) retain 'ā' throughout their declension, only...
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    in regard to noun case declensions, whereas modern Norwegian in comparison has moved towards more analytical word structures. Old Norse had three grammatical...
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    the later development of these declensions in languages such as German and Old English, where the strong declensions have more distinct endings. In the...
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  • agreed with their subject in person and number. Nouns came in numerous declensions (with deep parallels in Latin, Ancient Greek and Sanskrit). Verbs came...
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  • lowercased. Declension of the polite personal pronoun "Sie": Nominative case: Sie Accusative case: Sie Genitive case: Ihrer Dative case: Ihnen Declension of polite...
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    in fact much less than in the German "strong" endings.) Although it is possible to group the various noun declensions into three basic categories — vowel-stem...
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    n-stem nouns in Old English, but joined the weak declension in Middle English. Nouns of the strong declension are inherited from the other Old English noun...
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  • instrumental declension. Though not commonly known to be of pronominal origin, it was, in fact, inherited from Old English hwȳ, which was the declension of hwæt...
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    Inflection (category Articles containing Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text)
    while the inflection of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, etc. can be called declension. An inflection expresses grammatical categories with affixation (such...
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    Prussian region. The language is called Old Prussian to avoid confusion with the German dialects of Low Prussian and High Prussian and with the adjective Prussian...
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  • 18th and 19th centuries. The older forms are listed under "other forms". Some nouns of the e- and a- stems declensions (both proper ones and not) are...
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  • borrowed in the 19th and 20th centuries. German Wiktionary lists about 120,000 German words without declensions and conjugations. Of these, more than 2300...
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  • The German phonological umlaut is present in the Old High German period and continues to develop in Middle High German. From the Middle High German, it...
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  • postposition. This term can be used in languages where nouns have a declensional form that appears exclusively in combination with certain prepositions...
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