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The nominative case is used for the subject, the accusative for the object, but the distinctions in form are rapidly lost from all except pronouns. In early texts the distinctions can still sometimes be observed in articles and adjectives: see 4.3.6 and 4.4.2.

The accusative is used after some prepositions in early texts, where it is still distinct from the dative: over bradne wæld, 3/115.