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The numeral endings are always placed before the case endings . | The numeral endings are always placed before the case endings . | ||
Nouns are declined in number by adding the following endings to the base form of the noun. Only in this case a semantical distinction between animate and inanimate nouns is made in the choice among the endings: | |||
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| colspan="2" | ''animate nouns'' || colspan="2" | ''inanimate nouns'' | |||
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| style="width: 70px;"|<center><small>''front vowel''</small></center> || style="width: 70px;"|<center><small>''back vowel''</small></center> || style="width: 70px;"|<center><small>''front vowel''</small></center> || style="width: 70px;"|<center><small>''back vowel''</small></center> | |||
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| -že || -žo || -hii || -huu | |||
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There is, however, a limited amount of exceptions, in which the root is not expanded by any suffix, by having a clear noun role. | There is, however, a limited amount of exceptions, in which the root is not expanded by any suffix, by having a clear noun role. | ||
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Noun declension
As usual to an agglutinative language, Æbbro nouns display a set of number endings, which is clearly separated from the set of case endings. All endings are placed at the end of the nominal root, without undergoing any change (except for vowel armony). The sequence root + ending is thus easily recognizable:
retižewææ → reti - že - wææ as people → person - plural - essive case
The numeral endings are always placed before the case endings .
Nouns are declined in number by adding the following endings to the base form of the noun. Only in this case a semantical distinction between animate and inanimate nouns is made in the choice among the endings:
| animate nouns | inanimate nouns | ||
| -že | -žo | -hii | -huu |
There is, however, a limited amount of exceptions, in which the root is not expanded by any suffix, by having a clear noun role.
Nouns do decline, according to their role in the sentence for case. They also distinguish two morphological numbers, singular, and plural.
A nominal root is thus declined for case and number by adding the following morphemes:
| Numeral morphemes | |
| - | |
| -j-/-ij- | |
| Case morphemes | |
| -k̇ə | |
| - | |
| -ṗu | |
| -ʈu | |
| -ʡo | |
| -no | |
| -pə | |
| -ma | |
| -wa | |
The numeral morpheme is always placed before the case morphemes. The form -ij- is added after a semivowel.
Some examples are shown below: a typical active or animate noun, rome, father, and a typical inactive or inanimate noun, tojme, house.
| romek̇ə | romejk̇ə | |||
| rome | romej | tojme | tojmej | |
| romeṗu | romejṗu | |||
| romeʈu | romejʈu | tojmeʈu | tojmejʈu | |
| romeʡo | romejʡo | tojmeʡo | tojmejʡo | |
| romeno | romejno | tojmeno | tojmejno | |
| romepə | romejpə | tojmepə | tojmejpə | |
| tojmema | tojmejma | |||
| tojmewa | tojmejwa | |||
The endings for the secondary oblique cases are not usually added to a semantically animate noun, while the endings for the primary main cases are not usually added to a semantically inanimate noun.
