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Adjectives have been radically simplified since Gothic. All adjectives have hard stems and all inflectional endings have been lost. | Adjectives have been radically simplified since Gothic. All adjectives have hard stems and all inflectional endings have been lost. | ||
Attributive adjectives are only marked for gender, case, number and definiteness insofar as these distinctions are marked by umlaut alternations, so attributive feminine adjectives are indeclinable. Predicative adjectives are also indeclinable, and always identical in form to the attributive masculine indefinite singular. | .Attributive adjectives are only marked for gender, case, number and definiteness insofar as these distinctions are marked by umlaut alternations, so attributive feminine adjectives are indeclinable. Predicative adjectives are also indeclinable, and always identical in form to the attributive masculine indefinite singular. Archaically, predicative adjectives may be marked for gender (if umlaut alternation allows) and retain the plural ''-s'' when plural, but this is only preserved in set phrases in the modern language. | ||
Nominalised adjectives decline as masculine hard stem nouns and not as adjectives. | Nominalised adjectives decline as masculine hard stem nouns and not as adjectives. | ||