Lesson 5
In this lesson you'll learn: - How to ask rhetorical questions - How to decline O-stem nouns - How to say which language(s) you speak and ask which language(s) someone speaks - The full declension of adjectives - The full declension of "the" Rhetorical questions If you bump up to someone, you might say: "Hey, can't you see!?", of course an answer isn't expected here. Phrases which look like questions, but without an expected answer are rhetorical questions. There is a special way to form rhetorical questions in Gothic. If it is a negation (question with not, can't etc.), -u is added to "ni", you get "niu". Example: "Can't you see?", "Niu magt saihwan?". This can also be done with the word "ja", which is changed in "jau". An example can be found in John in the Bible. John 7:48 sai, jau ainshun þize reike galaubidedi imma aiþþau Fareisaie? Literally: "Look,