§ 43°] Adjectives 187 the people waited for Zacharias; jah alls hiuhma was manageins beidandans, and the whole croivd of the people was waiting (the Gr. has προσευχόμειχ»'. praying], (2) Grammatical feminines are occasionally treated as masculines, or even when denoting things as neuters; and grammatical neuters (when suggesting persons) as masculines, as ei kanniþ wēsi handugei guþs, thai the wisdom of God might be known ; ni waírþiþ garaíhts áinhun leikē, no man (lit. no one of bodies) becomctli just. (3) When the same adjective refers both to masculine and feminine beings, it is put in the neuter plural, as wēsunuh þan garaíhta ba in anđwaírþja guþs, and they (Zacharias and Elisabeth) ivere both righteous before God. t|430. The strong and weak forms of adjectives are employed in much the same manner as in the other old Germanic languages ; that is, adjectives used without the definite article follow the strong declension, and those with the definite article follow the weak declension, as was drus is mikils, great was the fall of it; ni mag bagms biuþeigs akrana ubila gatáujan, a good tree cannot produce evil fruit; haírdeis sa gōda, the good shepherd; untē baúrgs 1st þis mikilins þiudanis, for it is the city of the great king. The pronominal form of the nom. ace. neut. of strong adjectives (§ 226) is never used predicatively. All cardinal numerals, the ordinal numeral anþar, second, the possessive pronouns meins, my; þeins, thy; &c., the pronominal adjectives sums, some; alls, all; jáins, that; swaíeiks, such; &c., as also the adjectives fulls, full; ganōhs, enough ; halbs, half; midjis, middle; are always declined strong. All ordinal numerals (except anþar), all adjectives in the comparative degree, all the old superlatives ending in -ma, as fruma, first; aftuma, last; the present participle