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In all three dialects discussed here, nouns have two numbers: Singular and Plural. In Colloquial Gothic, they are declined for two cases: Common and the Genitive-Locative. In both Standard and Eastern Modern Gothic nouns are marked for three cases: Nominative, Oblique, and the Genitive(-Locative).

==== Strong Declensions ====

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center

|+ A-stem

|                                        -ɥɑ    ||              -ɜ      ||              -ɜ    || colspan="2" | -os

|}

==== Weak Declensions ====

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center

|+ An-stem

|                            -ɑσ      ||              -ɑ    || colspan="2" | -ɜ                              || -js                    || -i

|}

=== Adjectives ===

==== Strong Adjective ====

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center

|+ A-stem

|              -ɑσ      || colspan="3" | -ɥɑσ

|}

==== Weak Adjectives ====

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center

|+ Weak stem

|              -ɑv                                            || colspan="4" | -ɜv                                                                || -jn                                                  || -ouvn

|}

=== Verbs ===

==== Strong ====

Apart from a few exceptions, the ablaut of the strong verbs has largely collapsed.

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center

|+Standard Modern Gothic Strong Verbs

|                              colspan="5" | -ăz, -ăn-

|}

There is also a Perfective prefix: cɑ- ''ga-'', cɜ- ''ge-'', gă-. This is particularly common in the past tense.

==== Weak ====

The Modern Gothic Weak I conjugation corresponds to the Biblical Gothic Weak III verbs.

{| class="wikitable" style=text-align:center

|+Standard Modern Gothic Weak I Verbs

|                                                        colspan="5" | -nvn

|}