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| <center><small>''basic''</small></center> || - || -nu | |||
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| <center><small>''direct''</small></center> || - || - | | <center><small>''direct''</small></center> || -l‘ || -nol‘ | ||
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| <center><small>'' | | <center><small>''oblique''</small></center> || -ha || -noha | ||
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Some examples are shown below: | Some examples are shown below: paɸu, ''father'', and sowgu, ''house''. | ||
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Revision as of 09:56, 30 April 2025
Noun declension
Nouns are declined in case and number by adding the following endings to the base form of the noun:
| - | -nu | |
| -l‘ | -nol‘ | |
| -ha | -noha |
Some examples are shown below: paɸu, father, and sowgu, house.
| paβu | paβunə | sóɣə | sóɣənə | |
| paβure | paβunore | sóɣəre | sóɣənore | |
| sóɣəxa | sóɣənoxa | |||
| sóɣəsah | sóɣənosah | |||
As for the rules, the endings for the secondary oblique cases cannot be added to a 1st class noun.
Nouns ending in a consonant in the singular direct case usually add a euphonic vowel before the endings of the other cases. This vowel is generally -ə-, but other vowels are also possible.
dir. piɣ → g.d. piɣəre, ... dir. šóneh → g.d. šónehare, ...
Some irregular nouns, conversely, change their last vowel in the root before adding other endings. The commonest changes are e → a, or ə → o. A lot of these nouns display both irregular and regular forms, especially in earlier texts. In modern texts the amount of irregular forms is increasingly limited.
dir. soβe → g.d. soβere or soβare, ... dir. sanə → g.d. sanəre or sanore, ...
