Gothic/Phonology
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Strong Nouns
This is the strong noun A-Stem section, there are other kinds of strong nouns but we will deal with those later.
Masculine A-Stem Nouns
Gothic has strong and weak nouns (along with strong and weak adjectives!). There are many stems or different declensions within each class of nouns. Here I will show you a-stem nouns. There are three genders in Gothic: masculine, feminine, neuter. These are not always sex-based as in English.
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | -s | -os |
| Accusative | - | -ans |
| Genitive | -is | -e |
| Dative | -a | -am |
Now onto the masculine article (definite). Gothic has no indefinite article (a, an) but only a definite (the) which has masculine, feminine, and neuter forms.
| Singular | Plural | ||||
| Nominative | sa | thai | |||
| Accusative | thana | thans | Genitive | this | thize |
| Dative | thamma | thaim |
For a while here I'm going to be basically throwing you a lot of tables. But here I'll explain the cases:
Nominative: marks the subject of the sentence
Accusative: marks the direct object of the sentence
Genitive: marks possession
Dative: marks the indirect object of a sentence.