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But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget. John Dodds said they were the een of a deer with the Devil ahint them; and indeed, they would so appal an onlooker that a sudden unreasoning terror came into his heart, while his feet would impel him to flight.
Wanns de keene Steff häs, kann ich der eener jevve.
If you don't have a pencil, I can give you one.
Declension
Nominative/Accusative:
Attributive: ee Mann or eene Mann, een Frau, ee Kend. The form ee becomes een before vowels and optionally elsewhere, whereas the feminine is always een.
Independent without determiner: eener or eenem, eenf, eent or (younger) eensn.
Independent with determiner: dä/die/dat een or dä/die/dat eene.
Dative:
Without determiner: eenem Mann, eener Frau, eenem Kend.
With determiner: däm eenem/n, dä eene or dä eenerf.
Eastern Moselle Franconian distinguishes masculine nominative and accusative. Masculine ää, ääner are nominative, whereas masculine ääne is accusative.
Westernmost Ripuarian has no dative forms. Moreover it uses the velarised stem eng- before vocalic endings and always in the feminine.
When it is unclear from the context whether een is the number (pronounced /eːn/) or the indefinite article (pronounced /ən/), the former is written with acute accents: één(“one”). In all other cases it is written without. For example, een van die unambiguously means “one of those”, so it is written without acute accents. However, een appel could mean both “one apple” and “an apple”, so if the former is intended one would write één appel.
When only the first letter of één is capitalised, the acute accent is usually dropped from the upper case E: Eén.
Examples
Een hoed: a hat; een oor; an ear.
Eén voor allen, allen voor één: one for all, all for one. (The motto of The Three Musketeers.)
When it is unclear from the context whether een is the number or the indefinite article, the former is written with acute accents: één. In all other cases it is written without. For example, een van die is 'one of those'. But een appel can mean both 'one apple' and 'an apple', so if the former is intended one would write één appel.
Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 37 & 38