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Faroese grammar is related and very similar to that of Icelandic and, to less extent, Elfdalian. Faroese is an inflected language with three grammatical genders and four cases: nominative, accusative, dative and genitive. ==Noun inflection== Below is a representation of three grammatical genders, two numbers and four cases in the nominal inflection. This is just an overview to give a general idea of how the grammar works. Faroese actually has even more declensions. In modern Faroese the genitive has a very limited use (and possession is mostly expressed with various prepositional phrases instead). For most native speakers, the Genitive is a learned and somewhat stilted form as opposed to the other cases which are learned naturally in regular colloquial situations. Read: *''hvør, hvat?'' interrogative pronoun "who, what?" *''ein'' indefinite article "a" *''stórur'' adjective "big" *''bátur'' noun "boat" *ein stórur bátur - a big boat (''m.'') *ein vøkur genta - a beautiful girl (''f.'') *eitt gott barn - a good child (''n.'') In the plural you will see that even the numeral ''tvey'' (2) is inflected. If the noun is definite, the adjective inflects ''weak'', and the noun gets a suffix article as in any Scandinavian language (although Icelandic does not generally need a pre-posed definite article in this construction). The interrogative pronoun is the same as above. In the plural, the plural form of the definite article is used. Read: *tann stóri báturin - the big boat-the *tann vakra gentan - the beautiful girl-the *tað góða barnið - the good child-the 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Faroese grammar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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