A Translation and Analysis of an Old English Sentence

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Þā onswerede he ond cwæð: Ne con ic nōht sinȝan; and ic for-Þon of Þēossum ȝebēorscipe ut ēode ond hider ȝewāt for-Þon ic nāht sinȝan ne cuðe! Translation: Then he answered, and said: I can`t sing, because of this I went out from the feast and came here because I couldn`t sing. # | The Form of the Word | The Phonological Analysis | The Morphological Analysis | | In the sentence | The basic forms from the dictionary | In the cognate languages | Consonantal changes | Vowel changes | The part of speech | The paradigmatic form | 1. | Þā | Þā | Gth-Þan, Þana | | | Adverb | | 2. | onswerede | andswarian | L.- respondeOHG-antwurtenGth- and-waúrdjan | | i-umlaut | verb | Past Indicative | | | | | | | | Person | Number | | | | | | | | | sg. | pl. | | | | | | | | 1. | onswerede | onsweredon | | | | | | | | 2. | onsweredest | | | | | | | | | 3. | onswerede | | 3. | he | he | OHG-erGth-isL-ille | | | Personal pronoun | Singular | Plural | nominative | hē | hīe | accusative | hine | hīe | genitive | his | hiera, heora | dative | him | him, heom | | 4. | ond | and | OHG-anti, enti, intiOFr-anda, enda | | | Conjunction | | 5. | cwæð | cweÞan | Gth-qiÞanOHG-quethanLat-veto | g˃k according to Grimm`s lawt˃Þ according to Grimm`s law | i˃e according to Germanic Fracture | Strong verb | indicative | present | preterite | 1st-person singular | cweþe | cwæþ | 2nd-person singular | cweþest, cwiþst | cwǣde | 3rd-person singular | cweþeþ, cwiþ | cwæþ | plural | cweþaþ | cwǣdon | | 6. | ne | ne | OHG-ni, neGth-niL-non | | | Negative particle | | 7. | con | cunnan | OHG-kunnan, kanGth-kunnan | | | Preterite-present verb | indicative | present | preterite | 1st-person singular | can(n) | cūþe | 2nd-person singular | canst | cūþest | 3rd-person singular | can(n) | cūþe | plural |

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