Hy/sy/dit is.           hij/zij/het is       he/she/it is

Ons is.                wij zijn      we are

Julle is.               jullie zijn  you are (plur.)

Hulle is.               zij zijn.          they are

55) Complete the table about the West Germanic languages, indicate grammatical features of them:

# The West Germanic languages Grammatical category Word order

1 English

2 German

3 Dutch

Note that some of the shown similarities of Frisian and English vis-à-vis Dutch and German are secondary and not due to a closer relationship between them. For example, the plural of the word for "sheep" was originally unchanged in all four languages and still is in some Dutch dialects and a great deal of German dialects. Many other similarities, however, are indeed old inheritances.

Complete the table about the North Germanic languages, indicate grammatical features of them:

# The West Germanic languages Grammatical category Word order

1 Danish

2 Swedish

3 Icelandic

The Swedish alphabet is Latin, with the letters Å, Ä, and Ö (in that order at the end of the alphabet), and also. Until 2006, the letter W was considered not an independent letter, but an analogue of V, and was used only in names of foreign origin and borrowings. In 2006, W was included in the alphabet. With a wide variety of dialects and dialects, written Swedish is uniform and standardized.

The Danish alphabet, using the Latin font, has 29 letters (the same as the Norwegian; see the Danish-Norwegian alphabet). A special feature of the Danish alphabet are the letters, Øø, Å. The letters Qq, Ww, Zz are found only in foreign words.

The oldest written monuments of the Icelandic language are manuscripts of the thirteenth century, some of which are possibly lists of manuscripts of the con. XII century. Compared with the standard Latin alphabet, the Icelandic alphabet does not contain the letters с, q, w, z (the latter was abolished in 1974) and there are á, é, ð, í, ó, ú, ý, þ, æ, ö.

Complete the table about the North Germanic languages, indicate grammatical features of them:

# The West Germanic languages Grammatical category Word order

1 Danish

2 Swedish

3 Icelandic.

Similarly to the case of English, modern Danish grammar is the result of a gradual change from a typical Indo-European dependent-marking pattern with a rich inflectional morphology and relatively free word order, to a mostly analytic pattern with little inflection, a fairly fixed SVO word order and a complex syntax. Some traits typical of Germanic languages persist in Danish, such as the distinction between irregularly inflected strong stems inflected through ablaut (i.e. changing the vowel of the stem, as in the pairs tager/tog ("takes/took")

Swedish nouns and adjectives are declined in genders as well as number. Nouns belong to one of two genders – common for the en form or neuter for the ett form[50] – which also determine the declension of adjectives. For example, the word fisk ("fish") is a noun of common gender (en fisk) and can have the following forms:

SingularPlural

Indefinite form      fisk fiskarг

Definite form.      fisken. fiskarna

Icelandic retains many grammatical features of other ancient Germanic languages, and resembles Old Norwegian before much of its fusional inflection was lost. Modern Icelandic is still a heavily inflected language with four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. Icelandic nouns can have one of three grammatical genders: masculine, feminine or neuter. There are two main declension paradigms for each gender: strong and weak nouns, and these are further divided into subclasses of nouns, based primarily on the genitive singular and nominative plural endings of a particular noun.