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Like nouns, adjectives may be strong or weak. Most adjectives have both forms. The strong forms are used attributively (''happy people'') and predicatively (''they are happy''), while the weak forms are used nominally (''the rich''). Adjectives that only have one form use that form in all usages. | Like nouns, adjectives may be strong or weak. Most adjectives have both forms. The strong forms are used attributively (''happy people'') and predicatively (''they are happy''), while the weak forms are used nominally (''the rich''). Adjectives that only have one form use that form in all usages. | ||
====Strong Adjectives==== | ====Strong Adjectives==== | ||
Strong adjectives have a special "generic" gender that can be used when the gender is unknown or unimportant. In the plural, it is identical to the neuter. | |||
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|+ Strong adjective declension | |||
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! rowspan="2" | Case !! colspan="4" | Singular !! colspan="3" | Plural | |||
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! Masculine !! Neuter !! Generic !! Feminine !! Masculine !! Neut./Gener. !! Feminine | |||
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! Nominative | |||
| -es || -et || - || -e || -e || -e || -es | |||
|- | |||
! Accusative | |||
| -en || -et || - || -e || -es || -e || -es | |||
|- | |||
! Dative | |||
| colspan="3" | -em || -es || colspan="3" | -em | |||
|- | |||
! Genitive | |||
| colspan="7" | -es | |||
|} | |||
====Weak Adjectives==== | ====Weak Adjectives==== | ||
Declined identically to weak nouns. | Declined identically to weak nouns. | ||