wˌaɪl ðiːz wˈɜːdz bɪkˌeɪm sɪntˈæktɪkli mˈæskjʊlˌɪn, sˌoʊ ðæt dɪtˈɜːmɪnɚz ænd ˈædʒɪktˌɪvz kənˈɛktᵻd tə ðˌɛm tˈʊk mˈæskjʊlˌɪn ˈɛndɪŋz, ðeɪ sˈʌmtaɪmz ɹᵻmˈeɪnd mˌɔːɹfəlˈɑːdʒɪkli nˈuːɾɚ, wˌɪtʃ kʊd biː sˈiːn ɪn ðɛɹ ɪnflˈɛkʃənz: ɪnðə fɹˈeɪz, ɡˈʌθ mˈeɪnz, "maɪ ɡˈɑːd," fɹʌmðə ɡˈɑːθɪk bˈaɪbəl, fɔːɹ ɛɡzˈæmpəl, ɡˈʌθ ɪnflˈɛkts æz ɪf ɪt wɜː stˈɪl ɐ nˈuːɾɚ bɪkˈʌz ɪt lˈæks ɐ fˈaɪnəl ˈɛs, bˌʌt ðə pəzˈɛsɪv ˈædʒɪktˌɪv mˈeɪnz tˈeɪks ðə fˈaɪnəl ˈɛs ðˌɐɾɪt wʊd wɪð ˈʌðɚ mˈæskjʊlˌɪn nˈaʊnz.
While these words became syntactically masculine, so that determiners and adjectives connected to them took masculine endings, they sometimes remained morphologically neuter, which could be seen in their inflections: In the phrase, guþ meins, "my God," from the Gothic Bible, for example, guþ inflects as if it were still a neuter because it lacks a final -s, but the possessive adjective meins takes the final -s that it would with other masculine nouns.