Gothic/Phonology
< Gothic
Strong Nouns
[edit | edit source]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
[edit | edit source]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.