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1. Suffix

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   For example, the suffix inventory of Old High Germanic possessed distinct markers for nominative/), accusative/), and dative plural for neuter nouns. Modern German has collapsed these distinctions entirely into a single zero-marked plural form in most contexts, effectively demonstrating terminal erosion of the [case suffix system](/entries/case-s…