§§ 104-e] Adjectives, Pronouns, Yerbs 77 strong form in the Nom. and Ace. singular ; by the strong or weak form in the pi. and Gen. and Dative singular. The possessive pronouns are declined strong. The uninflected form of the adjective is used side by side with the inflected in the Nom. singular, all genders, and Ace. singular neuter, when the adjective comes before the noun: ein guot man, a good man. When the adjective stands after the noun the uninflected form may be used without reference to number, gender, or case, ein, dehein, and the possessive pronouns have the uninflected form in the Nom. for all genders, and Ace. neuter. The unin- flected form of al, all, can be used before all forms of the definite article: in al der wërlte, in all the world. See § 55. | |||||
PRONOUNS. § 104. im, ir, pi. in, are used to express the dative of the reflexive pronoun, der is sometimes used pleonas- tically, as der brunne, der was küele, the spring was cool. man used as an indefinite pronoun can take the definite article along with it. VERBS. § 105. Number. The verb can be used in the singular after a compound subject, as Volker und Hagene so sere wiieten began,. . . began to rage so furiously. § 106. Tenses. The fut. simple is expressed by sol, muoz;, wil and the infin., or simply by the pres., as in OE.: ich sol gān, / shall go; bin ich gnislīch, so genise ich, if I am curable, I shall recover. For the fut. pf. the pf. is used: da? ist schiere getan, that will soon have been done. The pf. is expressed either by the simple pret. or the p.p. and the verbs hān, sīn; in subordinate sentences the pret. often has the meaning of the pluperfect: dō du | |||||