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l Grammar of Old English was quite complicated with declension of Nouns and Adjectives and declension of Verbs.
l The Noun:
N. gief-u (gift) gief-a
G. gief-e gief-a
D. gief-e gief-um
A. gief-e gief-a
l The Adjective had strong and weak declension.
Singular Plural
N. Gōd gōd-e
G. gōd-es gōd-ra
D. gōd-um gōd-um
A. gōd-e gōd-e
(Strong Declension, Masculine)
The Adjective Such complexity was unnecessary as English has demonstrated by getting along without it.
The Definite Article
Like German of today, Old English had a fully inflected definite article.
The Noun. Gender
l Gender in Old English was quite illogical: wīf (wife), bearn (son, child), mægden (girl) which are expected to be masculine or feminine, are neuter in fact. Wīfmann (woman) is masculine because the 2nd component is masculine.
The Verb
l The inflection of the verb is much simpler than of I-E Verbs. Comparison of Old English and Latin and Greek proves that Old English lost lots of its inflections.
l In Present English word order controls everything: SVO the man saw the woman
In Old English there were 5 other ways
SOV the man the woman saw
OSV the woman the man saw
OVS the woman saw the man
VOS saw the woman the man
VSO saw the man the woman
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