Table of Contents

Introduction

Part One: Old English Course

  1. Section 1
    1. The noun
    2. 'The' (se, séo, þæt)
    3. 'This' (ðes, ðéos, ðis)
    4. The Subject
  2. Section 2
    1. The Object
    2. Word Order
    3. Negation
  3. Section 3
    1. Personal pronouns (nominative)
    2. Present tense, weak verbs (híeran)
    3. Infinitive verbs
    4. Personal pronouns (accusative)
  4. Section 4
    1. The adjective
    2. The adjective ending -u, -e, -h
    3. Numerals
    4. Prepositions (with the accusative)
    5. The dative
    6. Prepositions (with the dative)
  5. Section 5
    1. The indirect object
    2. 'To be' (wesan / béon) and the future tense
    3. Possessive adjectives
    4. 'No, none' (nán)
    5. 'To have' and 'to have not' (habban, nabban)
  6. Section 6
    1. The genitive
    2. Nouns ending in -e (stede
    3. Present tense, weak verbs (fremman, nerian)
    4. Imperative mood (second person)
    5. Imperative mood (first person plural)
  7. Section 7
    1. Relative clauses
    2. 'He who' / 'that which'
    3. Present tense, weak verbs (lufian)
    4. Noun plurals with vowel change (mann / menn)
    5. Vowel correspondences (i-mutation)
  8. Section 8
    1. Verb types (weak, strong, preterite-present)
    2. Present tense, strong verbs
    3. 'When' and 'then' (hwonne, þonne, þá)
    4. Interrogatives
    5. Indefinite pronouns
  9. Section 9
    1. Past tense, weak verbs
    2. Past participle, weak verbs
    3. Perfect and pluperfect tenses, weak verbs
    4. Syllable weight
    5. Nouns ending -u
    6. Nouns ending -ð0
  10. Section 10
    1. Nouns ending -r
    2. Past tense, weak verbs (bycgan, sellan, weccan)
    3. Adverbs
    4. Nouns ending in -end, -ð, and with plural in -r-
    5. Past tense, strong verbs (rídan)
    6. Past tense, strong verbs (léon)
  11. Section 11
    1. Nouns ending -h
    2. Dative: further uses
    3. Weak nouns
    4. Past tense, strong verbs (hréowan); aorist-presents
    5. Past perticiple, strong verbs (rídan, hréowan)
    6. Accusative: further uses
  12. Section 12
    1. The adjective, weak endings
    2. The adjectival substantive
    3. Past tense, strong verbs (weorþan, helpan, findan)
    4. Ordinal numbers
    5. Past tense, strong verbs (beran, cuman, scieran)
  13. Section 13
    1. The comparative adjective
    2. Past tense, strong verbs (speccan, etan, giefan)
    3. The superlative adjective
    4. The irregular comparative / superlative adjective
    5. The present participle
  14. Section 14
    1. Past tense, strong verbs (cunnan)
    2. Genitive: further uses
    3. Numerals: oblique cases
    4. Past tense, strong verbs (cnáwan, slæpan)
    5. Pronouns (se, wit, git)
  15. Section 15
    1. Preterite-present verbs (cunnan)
    2. Preterite-present verbs (witan, nytan)
    3. Preterite-present verbs (mótan)
    4. Preterite-present verbs (magan)
    5. Preterite-present verbs (sculan), willan and nyllan
    6. Preterite-present verbs (ágan, þurfan, durran, gemunan, dugan)
  16. Section 16
    1. Inflected infinitive
    2. Impersonal verbs
    3. Adverbs: comparative and superlative
    4. Subjunctive mood
    5. Subjunctive mood - uses
    6. Subjunctive mood - wesan, béon
  17. Section 17
    1. Clauses and purpose of result
    2. 'Such' and 'so' - swá
    3. Instrumental case
    4. Personal names
    5. Adverbs of emotion and direction
  18. Section 18
    1. Conjunctions
    2. Word formations - composition
    3. Word formation - affixation
    4. Word formation - derivation

Part Two: Old English Grammar

Part Three: Old English texts

Part Four: Key to exercises

Part Five: Old English Glossary

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