Old English is the language that was used by the Anglo-Saxons between their arrival in Britain and the Norman conquest. The language is significantly different than modern English. Old English had four cases (and a vestigial fifth one that was rarely used). The case determined the role of a word in a sentence and was appeared as an ending added to the word. For example, the dative (indirect object) case added an -um In the plural in all genders. So "stan" (stone) becomes "stanum". All nouns are declined in this manner, so the language is a lot more grammatically complex then modern English. Adjectives followed a similar scheme, and were declined based on the nouns they were describing.
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