Gothic/Phonology

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. + A-Stem Nouns 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. + Masculine Article 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.