same for the masculine and feminine gender, but the accusative forms differed: Nominativism: In spoken northern Dutch, as well as the modern written standard. Examples: de man, een man (the man, a man), de vrouw, een vrouw (the woman, a woman) Accusativism: In spoken southern Dutch (especially Brabantian in the Netherlands and Belgium). Examples: den/d'n man, ene(n)/'ne(n) man, de vrouw, een vrouw. Nominative In the older standard, the nominative (nominatief or eerste naamval) was used for the following: Subject: Ik ga naar school. (I go to school) Predicate nominative: Peter is piloot. (Peter is a pilot) Genitive The genitive (genitief or tweede naamval) was used in the following cases: Possession: des mans hoed (the man's hat), Peters vriend (Peter's friend) Relationship: Zoon des mensen (Son of man), het rijk der natuur (the realm of nature) Partitive: Eén der mensen ontbreekt. (One of the people is missing) Indicating time: 's maandags studeert ze aardrijkskunde (Mondays she studies geography) With certain adjectives, such as bewust, deelachtig, gedachtig, machtig, schuldig, waardig. As a complement of certain verbs, such as zich ontfermen, zich erbarmen, gedenken, zich herinneren, zich schamen. Many of these uses are replaced by the preposition van in modern Dutch. A few cases use other prepositions. de hoed van de man het rijk van de natuur Eén hunner kon ontsnappen → Een van hen kon ontsnappen (One of them was able to escape) Ontferm u mijner → Ontferm u over mij (Have mercy on me) The (possessive) genitives of the personal pronouns are replaced by the possessive pronouns. een vriend mijner (a friend of mine) → mijn vriend (my friend) The possessive form of the genitive is still productive when used with proper names. This form does not resemble the old genitive, which was a full case and had distinctive endings on each word in a phrase. Instead, it is a possessive clitic much like in English, and attaches to the last word in the whole phrase. For example, "Jans auto" (John's car) is productive and in common usage. However, in some cases the old form is still productive to evoke a certain style: de generatie der babyboomers or to avoid using van too often: de wensen van de meerderheid der Nederlandse bevolking. A partitive genitive form of the adjective is still used after words like iets, niets (something, nothing), e.g. iets nieuws (something new). Gerunds can sometimes still be found in