_Sing._ 1. Eom (_I am_) Em. 2. Eart. Ert. 3. Is. Er. {45} _Plur._ 1. Synd (Syndon) Erum. 2. Synd (Syndon) Erudh. 3. Synd (Syndon) Eru. _Indicative. Past._ _Sing._ 1. W['ae]s Var. 2. W['ae]re Vart. 3. W['ae]s Var. _Plur._ 1. W['ae]ron Vorum. 2. W['ae]ron Voru. 3. W['ae]ron Voru. _Subjunctive. Present._ _Sing._ 1. S['y] S['e]. 2. S['y] S['e]r. 3. S['y] S['e]. _Plur._ 1. S['y]n S['e]um. 2. S['y]n Seudh. 3. S['y]n S['e]u. _Subjunctive. Past._ _Sing._ 1. W['ae]re Vaeri. 2. W['ae]re Vaerir. 3. W['ae]re Vaeri. _Plur._ 1. W['ae]ron Vaerum. 2. W['ae]ron Vaeru. 3. W['ae]ron Vaerudh. _Infinitive._ Wesan Vera. _Participle._ Wesende Verandi. s. 90. Recapitulating, we find that the characteristic differences of the greatest importance between the Icelandic and Saxon are three in number:-- 1st. The peculiar nature of the definite article. 2nd. The neuter form of the adjectives in _-t_. 3rd. The existence of a passive voice in _-sc_, _-st_, or _-s_. s. 91. In the previous comparison the substantives were divided as follows:--1st. into those ending with a vowel; 2ndly, into those ending with a consonant. In respect to the substantives ending with a vowel (_e['a]ge_, _nama_, _tunge_), it may have been observed that their cases were in A. S. almost {46} exclusively formed in _-n_, as _e['a]gan_, _tungan_, &c.; whilst words like _skip_ and _smidh_ had, throughout their whole declension, no case formed in _-n_; no case indeed wherein the sound of _-n_ entered. This enables us (at least with the A. S.) to make a general assertion concerning the substantives ending in a _vowel_ in contrast to those ending in a _consonant_, viz. that they take an inflection in _-n_. In Icelandic this inflection in _-n_ is concealed by the fact of _-an_ having been changed into _-a_. However, as this _-a_ represents _-an_, and as fragments or rudiments of _-n_ are found in the genitive plurals of the neuter and feminine genders (_augna_, _tungna_), we may make the same general assertion in Icelandic that we make in A. S., _viz._ that substantives ending in a vowel take an inflection in _-n_.