Neuter i-stem
The biggest animate neuter class, frequently encountered in gender paradigms to refer to people of unspecified gender. Neuter i-stem nouns have a null ending in nominative singular.
Conjugation of neuter i-stems is mostly identical to masculine i-stem, though it differs in nominative, vocative, accusative and genitive.
| Singular in. | Singular an. | Dual in. | Dual an. | Paucal in. | Paucal an. | Plural in. | Plural an. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nom. | - | -π° | -πΉπ½π° | -πΏπΎπ° | -πΉ | |||
| Voc. | -π°πΏ | -π° | -πΉπ½π° | -πΏπΎπ° | -πΉ | |||
| Acc. | - | -πΉπ½ | -π° | -πΉπ½π° | -πΏπΎπ° | -πΏπ½π | -πΉ | -πΉπ½π |
| Gen. | -πΉπ | -π | -πΉπ½π | -π | -π΄ | |||
| Caus. | -πΉπ | -πΉπ±π° | -πΉπ±πΉ | -πΉπ | ||||
| Dat. | -π°πΉ | -πΉπΌπ° | -πΉπΌπΉ | -πΉπΌ | ||||
| Peg. | -πΉ | -πΉππ° | -πΉππΉ | -πΉπ | ||||
| Instr. | -π° | -πΉπΌπΆπ° | -πΉπΌπΆπΉ | -πΉπΌπ | ||||
| Form. | -πΉπ½π | -πΉπ π° | -πΉπ πΉ | -πΉπ | ||||
| Semb. | -πΉπ±π° | -πΉπ±πΆπ° | -πΉπ±πΆπΉ | -πΉππ | ||||
| All. | -πΉπΈ | -πΉπππ° | -πΉπππΉ | -πΉππ | ||||
| Loc. | -πΉπ | -πΉππΆπ° | -πΉππΆπΉ | -πΉππ | ||||
| Abl. | -πΉπ½π° | -πΉππ½π° | -πΉππ½πΉ | -πΉππ½π° | ||||
Wistrish neuter i-stem class does not have a conterpart in Gothic, as the class was lost there, but it has a (possible) counterpart in Proto-Germanic.
Note, that the nominative singular null-ending is also used by following classes*:
- Neuter a-stem
* Consonant stems that also technically have a null-ending in masculine singular are not included here.