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Skájamál is a conservative, richly inflected Indo-European language with several cases and genders. Skájamál has the nominative, accusative, genitive, dative cases and vestiges of an instrumental and vocative case. The three genders are masculine, feminine and neuter, similar to German or Elfdalian. As for number, a distinction between singular and plural is observed. | Skájamál is a conservative, richly inflected Indo-European language with several cases and genders. Skájamál has the nominative, accusative, genitive, dative cases and vestiges of an instrumental and vocative case. The three genders are masculine, feminine and neuter, similar to German or Elfdalian. As for number, a distinction between singular and plural is observed. | ||
====Nominative==== | ====Nominative==== | ||
The nominative case ({{sc|nom}}) is primarily the case for the agent and subject of a verb. | |||
:''barássa '''raunah''''' | |||
:A '''raven''' bathes. | |||
:smirjanín '''''wélandah''' swersá smirás'' | |||
:At (his) smithy, '''Wayland''' forges a sword | |||
By general agreement, it is also used for the predicate complement. | |||
:''ek imme '''énhá''''' | |||
:I am '''alone''' | |||
====Accusative==== | ====Accusative==== | ||
====Dative==== | ====Dative==== | ||