Маъсул муҳаррир: Филология фанлари доктори, профессор: Г. Х. Боқиева Тақризчилар

Possessive pronouns
The possessive pronouns are inflected according to the strong inflection of the adjective.
Personal pronouns
Gothic uses the 1^st, 2^nd and 3^rd person and a three-fold number division. Alongside singular and plural there is also a dual which indicates two people (eg wit = 'the two of us').
The familiar and polite forms of "you" use the same form of the second person, as in English, but unlike most other modern Germanic languages. (see also The Middle Dutch case system)
Verbs
The form of the verb indicates:
- The person (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rd) and the number (singular, dual, plural) A personal pronoun is used when needed for emphasis or contrast. In other cases Gothic suffice with the verb on its own.
- The mood: Gothic uses the indicative, imperative and subjunctive.
- The tense: There are only two forms, the present tense for the present and future, and the preterite for the past tenses (there are as yet no analytical compound verb forms such as "have done"). The preterite can be formed in various ways:
a) by a vowel change (strong verbs) - this method goes as far back as Indo-European.
b) by adding a dental suffix (weak verbs) with the sounds /d/ (as in English then) or /þ/ (as in English thin). Weak verbs are an innovation of the Germanic languages.
c) by reduplication, eg sleep: slEpan - salslep - salslepum). Strong and weak verbs are a typical feature of all modern Germanic languages. (See also characterization of the Germanic language family)
- active and passive: there are active and passive verb forms except for the passive preterite which is expressed by means of a different verb (wisan = 'to be' or wairpan = 'become') and a perfect participle (eg daupips was = 'he was baptised'). Here we can see the beginnings of the development from a synthetic to an analytical language, which is typical of all West-Germanic languages. (see also Middle Dutch verbs).
The principal developments from a language state with these features to the modern West-Germanic languages are the erosion of the differences between the stems of the nouns as a result of the heavy initial stress (see also loss of inflection in Middle Dutch), and the development towards an increasingly analytical language, the early stages of which we see in the formation of the passive preterite.