_Sing. Nom._ Wegferende Wegferend.
_Acc._ Wegferendne Wegferend.
_Abl._ Wegferende Wegferende.
_Dat._ Wegferendum Wegferende.
_Gen._ Wegferendes Wegferendes.
_Plur. Nom._ Wegferende Wegferendas.
_Dat._ Wegferendum Wegferendum.
_Gen._ Wegferendra Wegferenda.
_Pronouns Personal._--Of the pronominal inflection in Saxon, the character
may be gathered from the chapter upon pronouns. At present, it may be
stated that, like the Moeso-Gothic and the Icelandic, the Anglo-Saxon
language possessed for the first two persons a _dual_ number; inflected as
follows:
_1st Person._ _2nd Person._
_Nom._ Wit _We two._ _Nom._ Git _Ye two._
_Acc._ Unc _Us two._ _Acc._ Inc _You two._
_Gen._ Uncer _Of us two._ _Gen._ Incer _Of you two._
Besides this, the demonstrative, possessive, and relative pronouns, as well
as the numerals _twa_ and _threo_, had a fuller declension than they have
at present.
VERBS.
_Mood._--The subjunctive mood that in the present English (with the
exception of the conjugation of the verb substantive) differs from the
indicative only in the third person singular, was in Anglo-Saxon inflected
as follows:
_Indicative Mood._
_Pres. Sing._ 1. Lufige. _Plur._ 1. }
2. Lufast. 2. } Lufiadh.
3. Lufadh. 3. }
_Subjunctive Mood._
_Pres. Sing._ 1.} _Plur._ 1. }
2.} Lufige. 2. } Lufion.
3.} 3. }
The Saxon infinitive ended in _-an_ (_lufian_), and besides this there was
a so-called gerundial form, to _lufigenne_. {116}
_Tense._--In regard to tense, the Anglo-Saxon coincided with the English.
The present language has two tenses, the present and the past; the Saxon
had no more. This past tense the modern English forms either by addition
(_love_, _loved_), or by change (_fall_, _fell_). So did the Anglo-Saxons.
_Number and Person._--In the present English the termination -_eth_
(_moveth_) is antiquated. In Anglo-Saxon it was the only form recognized.
In English the plural number (indicative as well as subjunctive) has no
distinguishing inflection. It was not so in Anglo-Saxon. There, although
the _persons_ were identical in form, the _numbers_ were distinguished by
the termination -_adh_ for the indicative, and -_n_ for the subjunctive.
(_See above._) For certain forms in the second conjugation, see the remarks
on the forms _drunk_ and _drank_, in Part IV.
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