Editing Dual (grammatical number) (section)

===Other Germanic languages===
[[Gothic language|Gothic]] retained the dual more or less unchanged from Proto-Germanic. It had markings for the first and second person for both the verbs and pronouns, for example {{lang|got-Latn|wit}} "we two" as compared to {{lang|got-Latn|weis}} "we, more than two". [[Old Norse]] and other old Germanic languages, like Old English, had dual marking only in the personal pronouns and not in the verbs.

The dual has disappeared as a productive form in all the living languages, with loss of the dual occurring in [[North Frisian language|North Frisian]] dialects only quite recently.<ref>Howe, Stephen. ''The Personal Pronouns in the Germanic Languages. A study of personal pronoun morphology and change in the Germanic languages from the first records to the present day''. [Studia Linguistica Germanica, 43]. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1996. (xxii + 390 pp.) pp. 193–195.</ref> In [[Austro-Bavarian language|Austro-Bavarian]], the old dual pronouns have replaced the standard plural pronouns: nominative {{lang|bar|es}}, accusative {{lang|bar|enk}} (from Proto-Germanic {{lang|gem-x-proto|jut}} and {{lang|gem-x-proto|inkw}}, {{lang|gem-x-proto|inkwiz}}). A similar development in the pronoun system can be seen in [[Icelandic language|Icelandic]] and [[Faroese language|Faroese]]. Another remnant of the dual can be found in the use of the pronoun {{lang|da|begge}} ("both") in the Scandinavian languages of [[Norwegian language|Norwegian]] and [[Danish language|Danish]], {{lang|sv|bägge}} in [[Swedish language|Swedish]] and {{lang|is|báðir / báðar / bæði}} in Faroese and Icelandic. In these languages, in order to state "all + number", the constructions are {{lang|da|begge to}} / {{lang|is|báðir tveir / báðar tvær / bæði tvö}} ("all two") but {{lang|da|alle tre}} / {{lang|is|allir þrír / allar þrjár / öll þrjú}} ("all three"). In German, the expression {{lang|de|beide}} ("both") is equivalent to, though more commonly used than, {{lang|de|alle zwei}} ("all two").

[[Norwegian Nynorsk]] also retains the conjunction {{lang|nn|korgje}} ("one of two") and its inverse {{lang|nn|korkje}} ("neither of two").

A remnant of a lost dual also survives in the Icelandic and Faroese ordinals first and second, which can be translated two ways: First there is {{lang|is|fyrri / fyrri / fyrra}} and {{lang|is|seinni / seinni / seinna}}, which mean the first and second of two respectively, while {{lang|is|fyrsti / fyrsta / fyrsta}} and {{lang|is|annar / önnur / annað}} mean first and second of more than two. In Icelandic the pronouns {{lang|is|annar / önnur / annað}} ("one") and {{lang|is|hinn / hin / hitt}} ("other") are also used to denote each unit of a set of two in contrast to the pronouns {{lang|is|einn / ein / eitt}} ("one") and {{lang|is|annar / önnur / annað}} ("second"). Therefore in Icelandic "with one hand" translates as {{lang|is|með annarri hendi}} not {{lang|is|með einni hendi}}, and as in English "with the other hand" is {{lang|is|með hinni hendinni}}. An additional element in Icelandic worth mentioning are the interrogative pronouns {{lang|is|hvor / hvor / hvort}} ("who / which / what" of two) and {{lang|is|hver / hver / hvert}} ("who / which / what" of more than two).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.visindavefur.is/svar.php?id=63717#|title = Hvernig ber að nota orðin hvor og hver í setningu og hvað stjórnar kyni þeirra, tölu og falli?}}</ref>