Thank you, that was what I needed answered.

Tom

Yjsa
--- �skar Gu�laugsson <hr_oskar@...> wrote:

> --- In norse_course@egroups.com, Twm Ffresiar
> <maboniii@...> wrote:
> > I understand just about everything else, but one
> thing
> > that leaves me hanging a little is the declension
> of
> > nouns.
> >
> > You explained the declension of pronouns easy
> enough,
> > there are a limited amount of them, but as to
> nouns,
> > how do you know whether to place the (in this
> lesson)
> > 'r' after the noun?
>
> Hmm...in that case you need to go back through
> lesson 1. The -r ending
> is what the lesson is all about. Advancing to lesson
> 2 is not possible
> without understanding this feature.
> Most masculine nouns (which are the only nouns
> lesson 1 uses) add an
> -r if they're the subject in the sentence; the word
> order is
> irrelevant for this purpose, unlike in English.
> Example:
>
> �lfr s�r orm an elf sees a worm
> �lf s�r ormr a worm sees an elf
>
> ormr s�r �lf a worm sees an elf
> orm s�r �lfr an elf sees a worm
>
> Thus there is no need to concern oneself too much
> with the order in
> which the nouns appear; the -r ending and the lack
> of it simply
> indicate which word executes the verb and which one
> is executed upon.
>
> �skar
>
>

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