verbs based on person or number Its nouns have lost the morphological distinction between that denoted grammatical subject and object in Old Norse in favor of marking by word order Swedish uses some inflection with nouns, adjectives, and verbs It is generally a , which determine their definite forms as well as the form of any adjectives used to describe them Noun gender is largely arbitrary and must be memorized however, around three quarters of all Swedish nouns are common gender Living beings are often common nouns, like in Swedish formerly had three genders, masculine, feminine and neuter Though traces of the threegender system still exist in archaic expressions and certain dialects, masculine and feminine nouns have today merged into the common gender Differences between masculine and feminine nouns are today only expressed in the singular definite form of adjectives, and to some extent in personal pronounsThere are a small number of Swedish nouns that can be either common or neuter gender The database for There are traces of the former fourcase system for nouns evidenced in that Nouns make no distinction between subject and object forms, and the genitive is formed by adding than a proper case and is nearly identical to the possessive suffix used in EnglishSwedish nouns are inflected for number and definiteness and can take a genitive suffix They exhibit the following morpheme orderNouns form the plural in a variety of ways It is customary to classify regular Swedish nouns into five declensions based on their plural indefinite endings girls There are also a few exceptions, such as is slightly more common, there is no reliable rule to determine which suffix to use Examples onions A few rules can be named, though, as nouns of common gender ending with belong to the second declension In addition, endings to the third declension Nouns of common gender ending do not inflect Occasional exceptions are possible but few All polysyllabic common gender nouns and