Pronunciation
Declension of Nouns
     Declension of Weak Masculine Nouns
          Type I
          Type II
     Declension of Weak Feminine Nouns
          Type I
          Type II
          Type III
          Type IV
          Type V
     Declension of Weak Neuter Nouns
          Type I
          Type II
          Type III
Declension of Adjectives
     Strong Declension
     Mixed Declension
     Weak Declension
Declension of Pronouns
     Personal Pronouns
          First and Second Persons
          Third Person
     The Indefinite
     The Reflexive
     Relatives
     Demonstratives I
     Demonstratives II
     Interrogatives and Their Relatives
Declension of Determiners
     The Definite Article
     All Other Determiners
Conjugation of Verbs
     -AN Verbs
     -UN Verbs
     -ASD Verbs
Numerals

I = e, æ, i, į, ø, y, œ

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The definite article is placed before the noun it modifies in all cases save the dative (this rule holds true for all other determiners as well). In the dative case, the definite article comes directly behind the modified noun. If an adjective or an adjectival prepositional phrase is used in conjunction with a noun in the dative case, it comes between the noun and the article. If there is any confusion as to which noun the postposed article is modifying, the article may be attached to its noun or to an adjective modifying its noun with a hyphen. More and more often, though, the hyphen is used even when there isn't much room for confusion. In many dialects of Cepperjoleddicg, datives are only conjugated in the singular and the definite article is used to show number (I believe this convention is used as the dative plural often differs from the nominative and accusative plurals) - for example, the title of Z. Fordsmender's famous narrative Ymb þasþas Avdumsdan Fauan Nagdaner siþþer Sgy-'imm, "About the Occurrences of the Last Few Nights" (About the_gen. Last_gen. Few_gen. Nights_gen. their Occurrence-'the_dat.-pl.). This example brings us to another important grammatical point. Because the genetive proceeds the modified noun, in long constructions the audience may lose sight of what is being possessed and what is possessing. In order to solve this problem, Cepperjoleddicg may place a genetive pronoun after the genetive phrase and before the possessed down. This is the function of siþþer in Ymb þasþas Avdumsdan Fauan Nagdaner siþþer Sgy-'imm. Such usage is also reflected in the names of the coat of arms of the Kepperlands - Þænner Smyggar siįnner Bįsnsgæll so Maira, The Greater Coat of Arms of the Smygga Dukedom (The_gen. Smygga_gen. her Coat-of-Arms the Greater).

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ENGLISH : interrogative - relative
WHY : vhe? - duvhe
HOW : vhaewa? - vhaewa
WHEN : vhanne? - miþþan (nairs'į)
WHERE : vhar? Vharrað? - þærrį
WHAT (that which) : vhad? - þad, s'į
WHO : vha? - irį, sį, þirį, savharug s'į, s'į, vharug saį, þissvharug s'į

Notes: nairs'į is used to mean when in the sense of German als, not as a conjunction, but as an adverb used for time reference. miþþan is roughly equivalent to English whenever, though it may be used to mean "while" or "during."

irį is used concerning male animates, sį is used for feminines, þirį for neuters, and s'į (contracted from an earlier -and harder to pronounce - form, saį) may be used for any of the three. Savharug s'į, vharug saį (s'į), and þissvharug s'į are all roughly equivalent to whoever, whosoever.

All of these are pronouns, not adverbs (save nairs'į), therefore the relatives are translated in the following ways: duvhe the reason why, vhaewa the way how, miþþan the time when, þærrį the place where, þad what/that which, and irį he who. All of the above, with the exception of nairs'į, decline.

Determiners are a small body of modifying words like the definite article that decline according to their own paradigm. The important determiners are swįlch such, such a; wįlch which/what a; møng much, many; nocgain a certain; øng/sum some; all, ann all, any; įlch each; værį every; and n'ain no. Adjectives of nationality (such as Cepperjoleddicg, English, and German) and the possessive forms of pronouns also decline according to the determiners' paradigm. All of the determiners are regular, save the fact that those that end in "įlch" change to "ylch" in the dative plural.

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