The Anglo-Saxon inflection of the participles present is remarkable. With the exception of the form for the genitive plural definite (which, instead of -ena, is -ra,) they follow the declension of the adjectives. From the masculine substantives formed from them, and denoting the agent, they may be distinguished by a difference of inflection.
| Participle. | Substantive. | ||
| Wegferende=Wayfaring. | Wegferend=Wayfarer. | ||
| Sing. | Nom. | Wegferende | Wegferend. |
| Acc. | Wegferendne | Wegferend. | |
| Abl. | Wegferende | Wegferende. | |
| Dat. | Wegferendum | Wegferende. | |
| Gen. | Wegferendes | Wegferendes. | |
| Plur. | Nom. | Wegferende | Wegferendas. |
| Dat. | Wegferendum | Wegferendum. | |
| Gen. | Wegferendra | Wegferenda. | |
Pronouns Personal.—Of the pronominal inflection in Saxon, the character may be gathered from the chapter upon pronouns. At present, it may be stated that, like the Mœso-Gothic and the Icelandic, the Anglo-Saxon language possessed for the first two persons a dual number; inflected as follows:
| 1st Person. | 2nd Person. | ||||
| Nom. | Wit | We two. | Nom. | Git | Ye two. |
| Acc. | Unc | Us two. | Acc. | Inc | You two. |
| Gen. | Uncer | Of us two. | Gen. | Incer | Of you two. |
Besides this, the demonstrative, possessive, and relative pronouns, as well as the numerals twa and þreo, had a fuller declension than they have at present.
VERBS.
Mood.—The subjunctive mood that in the present English (with the exception of the conjugation of the verb substantive) differs from the indicative only in the third person singular, was in Anglo-Saxon inflected as follows:
| Indicative Mood. | |||||
| Pres. Sing. 1. | Lufige. | Plur. 1. |
| Lufiað. | |
| 2. | Lufast. | 2. | |||
| 3. | Lufað. | 3. | |||
| Subjunctive Mood. | |||||
| Pres. Sing. 1. |
| Lufige. | Plur. 1. |
| Lufion. |
| 2. | 2. | ||||
| 3. | 3. | ||||
The Saxon infinitive ended in -an (lufian), and besides this there was a so-called gerundial form, to lufigenne.