Old English Aerobics - Demonstrative Pronouns: þes

Demonstrative Pronouns: þes

For each of the following sentences, supply the correct form of the demonstrative pronoun þes ‘this’ from table 5.5 in Introduction to Old English. You’ll need to determine the gender, number and case of the noun that the pronoun modifies. You’ll be able to get some of this information from the glossary, some from the paradigms in Chapter Six, “Nouns,” and some from the sentence itself.

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________ wæs swīþe miċel wer.

Hīe þurhwuniað oð ________ andweardan dæġ.

Wā biþ þām mannum þe ne onġietaþ ________ worulde yrmþa.

Wē sculon ________ līf ġeþyldelīċe ādrēogan.

Indea land is on ēasteweardum ________ middanġearde.

________ earme wydewe brōhte māran lāc þonne ǣnig ōðer man.

Hēr on ________ ġēare Sweġen ġeendode his dagas.

Hīe ðā ealle miċlum wundrodon ________ worda.

God ġesceōp ________ eorþan on syx dagum.

Hīe oferswīðdon ________ foresǣdan dēoflu þurh Drihtnes fultum.

Se rīċa and se þearfa sind weġfērende on ________ worulde.

On þām fēorþan dæġe fram norðdǣle ________ middanġeardes miċel hrēam āstīġð hellegāsta.

Ac mid ________ woruldġesǣlðum man wyrċð oftor fēond ðonne frēond.

Þā æfter ________ ġefeohte ġewende Cnut cyning tō Glēawċeastrescīre.

________ þing sind earfoðe on Englisc tō secganne.

te01

Choose the pronoun that fits grammatically (in this case, agrees with wer) and drag it onto the blank.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te02

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te03

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te04

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te05

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank. Indea land is India.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te06

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te07

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank. Sweġen is Swein Forkbeard, who conquered England in 1013 and died in 1014; he was succeeded by his son Cnut.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te08

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank. Make sure to look up wundrian, or you are likely to get this one wrong.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te09

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te10

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank. foresǣdan means ‘aforementioned’.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te11

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te12

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank. Translate hellegāsta ‘of hellish spirits’.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te13

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank. Translate woruldġesǣlðum ‘worldly prosperity’ (it is plural with singular sense).

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te14

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank. Glēawċeastrescīre is Gloucestershire.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

te15

Choose the right pronoun and drag it onto the blank. Translate earfoðe: ‘difficult’.

þes þisne þis þisses þissum þȳs þēos þās þisse þissa

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