Editing Samogitian language (section)

== Grammar ==
The Samogitian language is highly [[inflected language|inflected]] like [[Lithuanian language|standard Lithuanian]], in which the relationships between parts of speech and their roles in a sentence are expressed by numerous flexions.
There are two [[grammatical genders]] in Samogitian – feminine and masculine. Relics of historical [[Neuter gender|neuter]] are almost fully extinct while in standard Lithuanian some isolated forms remain. Those forms are replaced by masculine ones in Samogitian. Samogitian [[Stress (linguistics)|stress]] is mobile but often retracted at the end of words, and is also characterised by [[pitch accent]]. Samogitian has a broken tone like the [[Latvian language|Latvian]] and [[Danish language|Danish]] languages. The circumflex of standard Lithuanian is replaced by an acute tone in Samogitian.

It has five [[noun]] and three [[adjective]] [[declensions]]. Noun declensions are different from standard Lithuanian (see the next section). There are only two [[verb]] conjugations. All verbs have [[Present tense|present]], [[Past tense|past]], [[Past iterative tense|past iterative]] and [[Future tense|future]] [[Grammatical tense|tenses]] of the [[indicative mood]], [[subjunctive]] (or [[Conditional mood|conditional]]) and [[imperative mood]]s (both without distinction of tenses) and [[infinitive]]. The formation of past iterative is different from standard Lithuanian. There are three numbers in Samogitian: [[Grammatical number|singular]], [[plural]] and [[Dual (grammatical number)|dual]]. Dual is almost extinct in standard Lithuanian. The third person of all three numbers is common.
Samogitian as the standard Lithuanian has a very rich system of participles, which are derived from all tenses with distinct active and passive forms, and several gerund forms. Nouns and other declinable words are declined in eight cases: [[nominative]], [[genitive]], [[dative]], [[accusative]], [[Instrumental case|instrumental]], [[locative]] ([[inessive]]), [[vocative]] and [[illative]].