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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
===Nouns | ===Nouns === | ||
Like our Slavic, Albionian has masculine, feminine and neuter genders, and has the same gender markers as our Slavic. | Like our Slavic, Albionian has masculine, feminine and neuter genders, and has the same gender markers as our Slavic. Gender-neutral forms are sometimes created by concatenating masculine and feminine endings. | ||
Modern Standard | Modern Standard Netažin nouns and adjectives have retained five of the seven Proto-Slavic cases: nominative, dative, genitive, allative from the PSlav accusative after prepositions, and vocative. (Dialects differ in the number of cases; some conservative dialects retain all 7 Proto-Slavic cases, while some dialects, particularly in the New World, have lost case entirely.) The nominative is used for both subjects and direct objects; the dative fills the role of dative nouns and after some prepositions in our Slavic languages. The instrumental (''instrumentởl'') is semi-productive in forming adverbs and expressions, e.g. ''prawdü'' 'really'; ''beagem'' 'during'; ''wuzglyndem'' 'owing to, in view of'; ''pomöþi'' 'with, using'; ''ynejmi slowy'' 'in other words'. | ||
The instrumental has been replaced with the dative in the following way: | The instrumental has been replaced with the dative in the following way: | ||