Talk:Strong noun

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I am not an expert on this field, but as far as I understand also Høgnorsk has both strong and weak nouns. The nouns used are "dag", meaning "day" (strong, masculine), "hane", meaning "rooster" (weak, masculine), "tid", meaning "time" (strong, feminin), "visa", meaning "poem" (weak, feminin), "hus", meaning "house" (strong, neuter") and finally "auga", meaning "eye" (weak, neuter).

eintal		fleirtal
indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
(ein) dag	dagen	dagar	daga(r)ne
(ein) hane	hanen	hanar	hana(r)ne
(ei) tid	tidi	tider	tide(r)ne
(ei) visa	visa	visor/visur	viso(r)ne/visu(r)ne
(eit) hus	huset	hus	husi
(eit) auga	auga(t)	augo	augo

--Oddeivind (talk) 12:45, 30 September 2009 (UTC)

Nynorsk also uses strong and weak nouns, it should be added. Bgagaga (talk) 18:40, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

In fact, strong and weak nouns are found in all Germanic languages, at least historically. In Germanic philology, "weak nouns" refers to nouns whose stem historically ends in -n, and "strong nouns" refers to all others. Compare Proto-Germanic grammar. At least in Modern German, the distinction is still made, while in Modern English, Frisian, Dutch, Low German, Danish and Swedish, noun morphology is simplified so much that the distinction doesn't seem to have much use anymore. But it was still useful even for Middle English and the medieval stages of the other languages. --Florian Blaschke (talk) 17:26, 17 January 2012 (UTC)

Rated for WP languages

I just rated this article as "list class". It is clearly not a list, but it just explains the terminology of two philological traditions in a concise and probably quite exhausting way. Little additional work to do, or little notablity. If anyone can suggest better raiting criteria, I'd be interested to hear them. (I am not watching this page.) Best, G Purevdorj (talk) 19:09, 31 August 2010 (UTC)