There is a large number of cases in which inflectional endings are identical except for how they affect the consonant grade, e . g . " leht "'leaf'belongs to a declension class in which both the genitive and the partitive singular are formed by adding "-e ", but the genitive takes the weak form ( " leh-e " ), while the partitive takes the strong form ( " leht-e " ).
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As far as I can tell, no significant inflectional categories or inflectional endings have been dropped in standard English over the last 500 years, except for everything connected with 2nd . person singular pronouns and verb endings ( the " thou "-" you " contrast disappeared due to sociological reasons much more than due to linguistic reasons as such ), substitution of "-s " for "-th " in third person singular verb endings, and dropping of " ye " as second person subject in favor of using " you " for both subject and object . . . talk ) 23 : 01, 1 August 2012 ( UTC)
