Gothic/2/Cases

Dag Godana!

Chapter One

1. Introduction
2. Gothic on your Computer
3. Gothic Alphabet
4. Accentuation
5. Rudimentary Grammar

Chapter Two

1. Chapter Vocabulary
2. Cases of the Noun
3. Conjugation of the Verb
4. Word Declension
5. Extended Exercises

Chapter Three

1. Chapter Vocabulary
2. Pronouns
3. Adjectives
4. Numbers
5. Extended Exercises

Chapter Four

1. Chapter Vocabulary
2. Word Order
3. Past Tense
4. Future Tense
5. Neologisms
6. Extended Exercises

Chapter Five

1. Chapter Vocabulary
2. Gothic-to-English Translation Exercises
3. English-to-Gothic Translation Exercises
4. Neologism Exercises

Appendix

1. Further Resources
2. Gothic Glossary
3. Answers to Exercises

What is a case?

In the simplest terms, a case is what will determine how a word is used in a sentence. Gothic makes these cases destinctive for each type of stem that is used by using Verb Strength. Cases are not a prominent feature in English unless you go into the forms of questions and personal nouns, so it might be harder for you to understand. We only use one case in speech for the most part, maybe two. In Gothic, we have four basic cases that we will use:

• The Nominative Case, which describes the subject of a sentence. Example: The man went to the store.
• The Genitive Case, which describes who owns an object. Example: This is the man's store.
• The Dative Case, which describes the Indirect Object of a sentence. Example: The man gave the money to the storekeeper.
• The Accusative Case, which describes the direct object of a sentence if the verb requires a subject and a direct object in order for the sentence to be logical. Example: The man bought blocks.

That is all you need to know about cases.