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Royvaldian nouns have been massively simplified and regularized from Old English. Royvaldian has two genders masculine and feminine, the Old English neuter was absorbed into the masculine rather than forming a common-neuter distinction. Royvaldian as eliminated irregular nouns for example unlike in English where the plural of mouse is mice the plural of Royvaldian moss is mosse. Royvaldian has four noun classes assigned based on gender and where the final syllable of a word is open or not.

Masculine Open Syllable - bere - bear

	Singular	Plural
Standard	bere /be.ɾə/	beren /be.ɾn/
Posessive	beras /be.ɾaz/	beren /be.ɾn/

Masculine Closed Syllable - shaop - sheep

	Singular	Plural
Standard	shaop /ʃaop/	shaop /ʃaop/
Posessive	shaopis /ʃao.piz/	shaop /ʃaop/

Feminine Open Syllable - coua - cow

	Singular	Plural
Standard	coua /koa/	coe /ko.ə/
Posessive	coas /ko.az/	coe /ko.ə/

Feminine Closed Syllable - moss - mouse

	Singular	Plural
Standard	moss /mos/	mosse /mo.sə/
Posessive	mosse /mo.sə/	mosse /mo.sə/

Bere enn voante ettan boreris enn coe and shaop.
The bear wanted to eat the farmer's cows and sheep.
bear DEF want-PAST eat.INFV farmer-POSS.M DEF cow-PL and sheep

In Royvaldian, definite articles like sē or sēo were lost and replaced by one definite article for all nouns enn from Old Norse hinn. Demonstrative pronouns and some definites exist in other contexts. The articles this and thoas are used on nouns with an adjective applied and definite article.

This veete shaop enn.
The white sheep.
DEF.SG white-M sheep DEF

Thoas bronen roan enn.
The brown deer.
DEF.PL brown-M.PL deer DEF

Pronouns

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	1SG	2SG	3M SG	3F SG	1PL	2PL	3PL
Nominative	yi /ji/	thoua /θoa/	hi /hi/	heia /hea/	vi /vi/	ye /je/	heia /hea/
Accusative	mi /mi/	thee /θi/	hin /hin/	heia /hea/	os /oz/	eiar /eaɾ/	heia /hea/
Genitive	meen /min/	theen /θin/	his /hiz/	hire /hi.ɾə/	ore /o.ɾə/	eiar /eaɾ/	eiare /ea.ɾə/

Yi sprak at his freiand. Heia liksst coe and theen borren der.
I spoke to his friend. She likes cows and your farm animals.
1.SG.NOM speak.PAST to 3.M.GEN friend 3.F.NOM like-3.PRES cow-PL and 2.SG.GEN farm-PL animal

That functions as a reflexive pronoun and as a demonstrative pronoun.

Yi ette coua enn that att theen grass.
I eat the cow that ate your grass.
1.SG.NOM eat-1.PRES cow DEF REFL eat.PAST 2.SG.POSS grass

Thoua liksst that.
You like that.
2.SG.NOM like-2.PRES DEM.SG

Vi likssan thoas.
We like those.
1.PL.NOM like-PL.PRES DEM.PL

It also functions as specific determiner. Singular that and plural thoas.

Yi voashte that dish.
I washed that dish.
1.SG.NOM wash-PAST DET.SG dish

Hi vendt thoas baone.
He's changing those beans.
3.SG.NOM change-3.PRES DET.PL bean-F.PL

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