vaksam hynda. 7 prinsessan. Den trofasta 8 makan. Den vackra9 Der går 10 en liten flicka. Min lilla qvinna. 7 watchful. 8 faithful. 9 beautiful. 10 goes. 6 10. Exercises. A faithful female friend1. A cheerful2 hostess 3. The 5 pretty laundress 1. A bad poetess. A great thief (f.). A rich heiress. The white hen. The cock-pigeon and the dove. Dear little papa. The little man is very conceited 1o. 9 1 vän or vänninna. 2 täck, artig, fryntlig. 3 värdinna. 4 tvätterska. 5 stor. 6 rik. 7 hvit. 8 höna. 9 mycket. 10 inbilsk. 11. Declension of Substantives. The Swedish Language has five declensions for the substantive, regulated by the termination of the nominative plural. The Nominative, Dative and Accusative of the substantives are all alike. The Genitive is formed by adding,,s"; or with the definitive article ens or ets; there occurs also an antiquated termination in sens, as: dagsens for dagens riksens for rikets, etc. Words ending in s and x remain unchanged if they are without the definite article, as: prins, Prince and of the Prince; sax, scissors and of the scissors; but if they are with the indefinite article they form: en prinses, of a Prince en saxes, of scissors The Plural of the 1st declension ends in or With the exception of substantives ending in a and most of those ending in e, they are declined by adding the following terminations: All feminine substantives ending in a, except maka, the wife (2nd D.) belong to this declension. Some few monosyllables ending in a consonant, whose termination was formerly in a, as: To this declension belong many masculine substantives ending in e, ing, dom, omme. Most words of this declension are masculine. pine ek, oak alm, elm tree. Obs. 2. Substantives ending in e, drop it before ar, as: gubbe, old man Plur. gubb-ar. Obs. 3. Substantives ending in the toneless syllables ar, el, en, er, drop the vowel in the Plural, as: morgon, morning Obs. 4. Plural, as: Substantives ending in fvel, drop the v in the gafvel, gable -Plur. gafl-ar. Obs. 5. Substantives ending in f, which is pronounced the Plural, as: v, add a v in Obs. 6. moder, dotter, modify the vowel in ö, as: 14. 3rd Declension. To this Declension belong masculine, feminine and neuter nouns, ending in ad, else, skap, het, i (except bi). Obs. 1. Those ending in an accented vowel, drop the e of the definite Article in the Singular and Plural, as: sko, shoe skon, the shoe skor, shoes except those in i, and åbo, fru, etc. skona, the shoes; Obs. 2. Those ending in el and er, drop the e in the Singular before the definite Article. Those in el drop it also n the Plural, as: fabel, fable broder, brother bröder fablen, the fable fablerna brodren, the brother Obs. 3. Many modify their vowels in the Plural, as: tång, tänger — bonde, bänder natt, nätter. Obs. 4. Those in t and some in n double the final consonant in the Plural, as: 15. 4th Declension. To this Declension belong all neuters, ending in a consonant, and those in are. Obs. 1. Those in el, er, en, drop the e before the definite Article in the Singular and Plural, as: vatten, water vattnet, the water Plur. vatten vattnen. Obs. 2. Those ending in f, receive a v before the Ar ticle, as: bref, letter brefvet, the letter Pl. brefven. With the indefinite Article. With the definite Article. To this declension belong the neuters ending in a vowel. hjerta, heart hjertat, the heart. sinne, sense sinnet, the sense. In the Plural they add only an n, as: hjertan, hearts Obs. 2. Those ending in other vowels add et in the Singular and n in the indefinite Plural, in the definite Plural |