taliesin the storyteller wrote:
> All the forms (well, not all the allowable alternates, I think I'll
> make a webpage...):
>
> | masculine | feminine | neuter |
> ---------+-+---------------+----------------+-----------------+
> singular | (en) stein | (ei) hoppe | (et) sverd |
> | steinen | hoppa | sverdet |
> | den steinen | den hoppa | det sverdet |
> ---------+-----------------+----------------+-----------------+
> plural | (flere) steiner | (flere) hopper | (flere) sverd |
> | (alle) steinene | (alle) hoppene | (alle) sverdene |
> | de steinene | de hoppene | de sverdene |
> ---------+-----------------+----------------+-----------------+
How did this system come about? It seems really odd (the fact that the
same (modified) morpheme(?) forms the indefinite article and the
definite suffix in the singular).
Tristan.