4 Verbs: don ' do', gan ' go', willan ' will' and beon 'be'.

Syntax

Old English, like its contemporary European languages, was a highly inflected language. Meaning was determined by case endings: that is, the relationship among words in a sentence was determined not by the order of the words in the sentence, but by the special endings of the words that determined which nouns were the subject, direct object, or indirect object; whether the nouns and verbs were singular or plural; whether the nouns were masculine, feminine, or neuter; and whether certain relationships of agency or action operated among nouns and verbs (we now use prepositions for this).