Gothic language

==== Word order ====
The word order of Gothic is fairly free as is typical of other inflected languages. The natural word order of Gothic is assumed to have been like that of the other old Germanic languages; however, nearly all extant Gothic texts are translations of Greek originals and have been heavily influenced by Greek syntax.

Sometimes what can be expressed in one word in the original Greek will require a verb and a complement in the Gothic translation; for example, διωχθήσονται (''diōchthēsontai'', "they will be persecuted") is rendered:
:{|
|''wrakos''||''winnand''||(2 Timothy 3:12)
|-
|persecution-{{abbr|{{sc|pl}}|plural}}-{{abbr|{{sc|acc}}|accusative}}||suffer-{{abbr|{{sc|3pl}}|third person plural}}
|-
|colspan=3|"they will suffer persecution"
|}
Likewise Gothic translations of Greek noun phrases may feature a verb and a complement. In both cases, the verb follows the complement, giving weight to the theory that basic word order in Gothic is object–verb. This aligns with what is known of other early Germanic languages.<ref>{{cite book |last=Eythórsson |first=Thórhallur |editor-last1=Thráinsson |editor-first1=Höskuldur |editor-last2=Epstein |editor-first2=Samuel David |editor-last3=Peter |editor-first3=Stever |title=Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax |volume=II |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |date=2001 |pages=109–10 |chapter=Functional Categories, Cliticization, and Verb Movement in the Early Germanic Languages |isbn=978-1-402-00294-6 |name-list-style=amp}}</ref>

However, this pattern is reversed in imperatives and negations:<ref name="Eythórsson 2001 110">{{cite book |last=Eythórsson |first=Thórhallur |editor-last1=Thráinsson |editor-first1=Höskuldur |editor-last2=Epstein |editor-first2=Samuel David |editor-last3=Peter |editor-first3=Stever |title=Studies in Comparative Germanic Syntax |volume=II |publisher=Kluwer Academic Publishers |date=2001 |pages=110 |chapter=Functional Categories, Cliticization, and Verb Movement in the Early Germanic Languages |isbn=978-1-402-00294-6 |name-list-style=amp}}</ref>
:{|
|''waírþ''||''hráins''||(Matthew 8:3, Mark 1:42, Luke 5:13)
|-
|become-{{abbr|{{sc|imp}}|imperative}}||clean
|-
|colspan=3|"become clean!"
|}

:{|
|''ni''||''nimiþ''||''arbi''||(Galatians 4:30)
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|not||take-{{abbr|{{sc|3sg}}|third person single}}||inheritance
|-
|colspan=4|"he shall not become heir"
|}
And in a ''wh''-question the verb directly follows the question word:<ref name="Eythórsson 2001 110"/>
:{|
|''ƕa''||''skuli''||''þata''||''barn''||''waírþan''||(''Luke 1:66'')
|-
|what||shall-{{abbr|{{sc|3sg}}|third person single}}-{{abbr|{{sc|opt}}|optative}}||the-{{abbr|{{sc|neut}}|neuter}}||child||become-{{abbr|{{sc|inf}}|infinitive}}
|-
|colspan=6|"What shall the child become?"
|}
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