Practice with Cases
Multiple-choice exercise
Choose the correct answer for each question.
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Which of the following nouns is in the nominative as subject of the sentence?
- ...þa þa menn slepon...
- ...þa com his feonda sum...
- Hlaford, hu, ne seowe þu god sæd on þinum æcere?
Which of these nouns is in the genitive?
- ...þa com his feonda sum...
- Hwanon hæfde he coccel?
- ...gadriaþ þone hwæte in-to minum berne.
Which of these nouns is in the dative, because it's the object of a preposition?
- ...oferseow hit mid coccele...
- ...þa ætiewde se coccel hine.
- Gadriaþ ærest þone coccel...
Which of these nouns is in the nominative (vocative) because it's a direct address?
- Þæt dyde unhold mann.
- Þa cwædon þa þeowas:...
- Hlaford, hu, ne seowe þu god sæd on þinum æcere?
Which of the following is an example of the use of the possessive genitive?
- Hwanon hæfde he coccel?
- Þa eodon þæs hlafordes þeowas and cwædon...
- on middan þæm hwæte
Which of the following is an example of an accusative as direct object?
- Þæt dyde unhold mann.
- Þa cwæþ he
- ...ic secge þæm riperum:...
Which of the following is an accusative as object of a preposition?
- ...þe seow god sæd on his æcere.
- Lætaþ ægþer weaxan oþ rip-timan...
- ...gadriaþ þone hwæte in-to minum berne.
Which of these pronouns is NOT in the nominative case?
- Hlaford, hu, ne seowe þu god sæd on þinum æcere?
- Nese: þylæs ge þone hwæte awyrtwalien, þonne ge þone coccel gadriaþ.
- Wilt þu, we gaþ and gadriaþ hie?
Which of these nouns is in the dative as an indirect object?
- Þa cwædon þa þeowas:...
- ic secge þæm riperum:...
- Gadriaþ ærest þone coccel...
Which of the following nouns is in the dative because of an adjective?
- Hlaford, hu, ne seowe þu god sæd on þinum æcere?
- ...þa com his feonda sum, and oferseow hit mid coccele on middan þæm hwæte...
- Heofona rice is geworden þæm menn gelic þe seow god sæd on his æcere.