The reason why adjectives are declined weak is because they are modified by a demonstrative pronoun, a genitive noun (phrase) or a possessive pronoun (or because they are in a vocative expression). The fact that weak adjectives tend to end in -an is not the REASON why they are declined weak. M EMES RELATING TO OLD ENGLISH ADJECTIVES Weak adjecives and weak nouns are characterised by the fact that the ending -an occurs frequently in their paradigms. Two memes explaining the conflation of the instrumental and the dative in late Old English A ‘Kalm Panik’-meme explaining dual case prepositions, where a dative object implies ‘stasis’ and an accusative object implies ‘movement’. MEMES RELATING TO OLD ENGLISH CASES The five grammatical cases of Old English A simple meme showing the difference between the case system in Old English and the case system in Middle English The Germanic stress rule (which puts emphasis on the first syllable of a word) resulted in less emphasis falling on the final syllables of words and, as such, Germanic languages may be said to self-sabotage their case systems. If you want memes in actual Old English, you can find those here: Please let me know (by e-mail or otherwise) whether you found these memes helpful in your endeavours to learn (or teach) Old English! More than 3 million registered users worldwide and licensed by more than 100 leading universities and corporations trust Grammarly's products.Here is a collection of Old English grammar memes that I made to help explain elements of Old English grammar to my students. The privately held company based in San Francisco and Kiev launched with its flagship product, the Grammarly Editor, which corrects contextual spelling mistakes, checks for more than 250 common grammar errors, enhances vocabulary usage, and provides citation suggestions. Grammarly ( is the world's leading automated proofreader.
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