Learn Gothic

In this lesson you'll learn:
- How to say where you live
- How to fully decline the personal pronoun (me, you etc.)
 - How to use the past tense of -jan verbs
- How to use the singular declension of "the" and "this/that"

Lesson 4 All forms of the personal pronoun Apart from I, you and he, you also have dative and accusative forms, which in English are me, you, him, her etc.

What are these forms in Gothic?

Let's look at them in a table, the first word given is the dative, the second one accusative. For example:
me - mis / mikMis is dative, mik is accusative.

Let's look at all forms now:

me - mis / mik
you (sing.) - þus / þuk
him - imma / ina
her - izai / ija
you (dual) - igqis / igqis
you (plural) - izwis / izwis
them - im (all forms)

For example,"you talk with me" would become "(þu) rodeis miþ mis", miþ takes the dative case and the dative form of "me" is "mis".

How to use the past tense of -jan verbs The past tense in G…

In this lesson you'll learn:
- How to say that something is yours
- The singular possessive pronoun
 - The present tense of -jan verbs

Lesson 3 It is necessary to use words like "my" and "your" to say that someone possesses something. These words are personal pronouns. Let's look at the declension of  the masculine singular form:

my = meinsyour (singular) = þeinshis = isher = izosour = unsaryour (dual) = igqaryour (plural) = izwartheir (masc. or neur.) = izetheir (fem.) = izo Only a few of these are declined, words like "izos" and "is" always stay the same, but "meins", "þeins", "unsar", "igqar" and "izwar" are declined like strong A-stem adjectives.

The singular forms are like this, given in the order masculine / feminine / neuter:

Nom. = meins / meina / meinGen. = meinis / meinaizos / meinisDat. = meinamma / meinai / meinammaAcc. = meinana / meina / mein Try to learn these by heart. If yo…

In this lesson you'll learn:
- How to ask or say what something is
- The three nominatuve forms of the definite article (the)
- The other forms of the masc. A-stem and the neuter A-stem
Lesson 2 The definite article The definite article (the) in Gothic is translated with the same word for "thus" and "that".
 In Gothic "the" is translated with "sa" (masc.) "þata" (neut.) and "so" (fem.).
These are the forms for the singular form, so "sa" can be used for "the king", but not for "the kings".

"the" however is only translated if a word was used before. So for example:
"The king is with a soldier, the king is on the road."
"Þiudans ist miþ gadrauhta, sa þiudans ist ana wiga."


How to ask or say what something is It is very important to be able to say what something is, or to ask what something is. For this we need to know the word for "what". The Gothic word f…

In this lesson you'll learn:
- How to start a conversation
- The present tense of the verb "to be" and personal pronouns
- A few important words

 Lesson 1
The verb "to be" (wisan) Just like Spanish, Gothic uses personal pronouns (I, you, he etc.) which are often left out. Personal pronouns in Gothic are used for emphasis and for clarification. An example is: "Who did it? He!"

The personal pronouns in Gothic look a bit like a mix of Dutch, German and English, let's take a look:
I = ikYou (sing) =  þuHe = isShe = siIt = itaWe (dual) = witWe = weisYou (dual) = jutYou (plural) = jusThey (masc.) = eisThey (fem.) = ijosThey (neut.) = ija The dual is used to express that two persons are involved, so "wit" = we two, "jut" = you two.

You use they (neuter) for mixed groups of both men and women.
One of the most important verbs to know is "to be", while we look at this verb we'll repeat the personal pronouns, as you now know w…

Learn Gothic
- Introduction
Have you ever wondered, if you'd travel back in time with a time machine to the time when Rome was invaded by northern tribes, how you'd ask a Visigoth where to find the toilet? You might be surprised to hear that Latin and Greek aren't the only languages from antiquity which are well preserved, in eastern Europe there was a bishop with a Greek mother and a Gothic father with the name Wulfila, which translated the Bible into their language. He did this because most of them weren't that good at speaking Greek or Latin. Quite a lot is preserved of the language in this way, and in these lessons you'll learn how to speak and read Gothic.

Gothic is an East-Germanic language. Learning it is a process, but interactive tests are added to each lesson to help you to learn to master what you've learnt. There will also be reading texts at the end of each lesson which you should be able to read if you know the grammar and vocabulary. Later on, we…