Hi Teja!
Sounds like you're asking two questions wrapped in
one here! Let's look at nouns first.
Nouns refer to things - either people, ideas or
objects.
Verbs refer to actions which are performed by the
nouns.
Nouns can be either masculine, feminine or neuter;
singular or plural. For example,
konungr is a masculine noun meaning king.
Laug is a feminine noun, meaning bath. Orð is a neuter noun, meaning
word.
As well as masc, fem, neut singular and plural,
nouns have cases to show whether they are the subject of the sentence or
not.
Verbs on the other hand do not have gender.
They can be either present or past and their form changes depending on whether
"I" do the action, or "you, he/she/it, we, you (plural) or they". For
example, the verb "to call" is
ek kalla
þú kallar
hann kallar
við kollum (the o should have a
little hook under it to show
þið kallið
it is pronounced slightly differently, sorry,
þeir kalla
can´t do this
with my keyboard!)
This is in the present tense, past is slightly
different.
and then buy a copy of Barnes "A New Introduction
to Old Norse" ISBN 0 903521 45 8
Hope this is helpful.
Good luck with your studies, it´s surprisingly
addictive isn´t it?!!
Sarah.
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Sunday, April 20, 2003 12:31
AM
Subject: [norse_course] another
question
How do you decline feminine nouns and verbs? Same for neuter?
AND, past tense? (For that I need masculine too.)
I ask because this is my roadblock to learning this language.
THANKS!!!
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