Vocalic stems Consonantal stems

(strong declension)

a-stems and their variants ja- stems, wa-stems

ō- stems and their variants jō- stems, wo- stems

i-stems

u-stems

n-stems ( weak de- clension)

Root-stems

Other minor stems: r-, s-, nd-.

Division according to gender

MN

F

MNF

MF

MNF

MF

MNF

Division according to the length of

the root-syllable

Short long	Short long	Short long	Short long
Singular Nom. scip Gen. scipes Dat. scipe Acc. scip Plural Nom. scipu Gen. scipa Dat.scipum Acc. Scipu (short-stemmed, Neut.) NE ship	talu tale tale tale tala (-e) tala (-ena) talum tala (-e) (short-stemmed, Fem.) NE tale	mete metes mete mete mete(-as) meta metum mete (-as) (short-stemmed, Masc.) NE meat	sunu suna suna sunu suna suna sunum suna (short-stemmed, Masc.) NE son	nama naman naman naman naman namena namum naman (M) NE name	fōt fōtes fēt fōt fēt fōta fōtum fēt (M) NE foot	fæder fæder(-es) fæder fæder fæderas fædera fæderum fæderas (M) NE father

3. The oe Pronouns.

OE pronouns fell roughly under the same main classes as modern pronouns: personal, demonstrative, interrogative and indefinite. Some scholars (e.g. Boris Ilyish) distinguish also possessive, definite, negative and relative pronouns in OE. The grammatical categories of the pronouns were either similar to those of nouns (in "nouns-pronouns") or corresponded to those of adjectives (in "adjective-pronouns").

a) Personal Pronouns.

In OE, as in Gothic, there were besides singular and plural personal pronouns, also dual pronouns for the 1^st and 2^nd persons.

Declension of personal pronouns Table 2

1^st person

Case singular	dual	plural
Nom. ic Gen. mīn Dat. mē Acc. mec, mē (NE I, me)	wit uncer unc uncit (≈ NE we both, us both)	wē ūre, ūser ūs ūsic, ūs (NE we, us)

2^nd person

Nom. þū Gen. þīn Dat. þē Acc. þēc, þē (NE you)

3it incer inc incit, inc (NE you both)

3ē ēower ēow ēowic, ēow (NE you)

3^rd person

singular	plural
M F N	All genders
Nom. hē hēo, hīo hit Gen. his hire, hiere his Dat. him hire, hiere him Acc. hine hīe, hī, hý hit (NE he, him) (she, her) (it)	hīe, hī, hý, hēo hira, heora, hiera, hyra him, heom hīe, hī, hý, hēo (NE they, them)

b) Demonstrative Pronouns.

There were 2 demonstrative pronouns in OE. The first one was the prototype of NE that, which distinguished 3 genders in the sg ( Nom. M sē, se; N þæt; F sēo) and had 1 form for all the genders in the pl (þā). The second one was the prototype of this with the same subdivisions: M. þes, F þēos, N þis and þās pl.

c) Other Classes of Pronouns.

Interrogative pronouns– hwā, Masc. and Fem., and hwæt, Neut., - had a four-case paradigm (NE who, what).The Instr. Case of hwat was used as a separate interrogative word hwý (NE why).

Indefinite pronounswere a numerous class embracing several simple pronouns and a large number of compounds. For instance, ān and its derivatives ǽni3 (NE one, any); nān, made up of ān and the negative particle ne (NE none); nānþin3, made up of the preceding the noun þing (NE nothing).