Old English Lesson 3 : People and Family

Lesson 3 of my series of Old English Lessons Notes : Firstly, it is important to know that there are three words (in the nominative singular case) for “the“ in Old English. These are are : se (masculine), séo (feminine) and þæt (neuter) Another important feature is that there is no word for “a“ or “an“ in Old English. Therefore “se ƿer“ means “the man“ and “ƿer“ means “man“ or “a man“ Vocabulary se mann : the person, the human (m) se ƿer : the man, the h