§§ 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