Grammar Flashcards

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Nouns are inflected for -

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Gender (Male, female, and neutral)
Strength (Strong vs. weak)
Nominative case (If applicable)
Accusative case (If applicable)
Dative case (If applicable)
Genitive case (If applicable)
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Nominative case

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Used when a noun is the subject of a phrase

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Accusative case

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Used when a noun is directly recieving an action (Ex. In the sentence ‘He opened the door’, ‘door’ would be in the accusitive case)
How to inflect:
Masculine nouns - Remove the nominative ending, and if the noun ends in ‘i’, change it to ‘a’.
Feminine nouns - If there is no nominative ending, do not add one in the accusitive form. If it ends in ‘a’, change it to ‘ur’.
Neutral - No ending should be added

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Dative case

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Used when a noun is recieving something (Ex. In the sentence ‘He gave her a gift’, ‘her’ would be in the dative case)
How to inflect:
Masculine - Very irregular. If it ends in ‘i’ in the nominative case, it will end in ‘a’ in the dative form.
Feminine - If there is no nominative ending, do not add one in the accusitive form. If it ends in ‘a’, change it to ‘ur’.
Neutral - Add ‘i’

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Genitive case

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Used to indicate posession (Ex. In the sentence ‘That is his book’, ‘his’ would be in the genitive case)
How to inflect:
Masculine - Add ‘s’ to the end. If it ends in ‘i’ in its nominative form, it will end in ‘a’ in the genetive form.
Feminine - If a noun ends in ‘a’, it will take ‘ar’ as its ending in the genitive form. Nouns without an ending end with ‘ur’.
Neutral - Add ‘s’.

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