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| ===Noun declension=== | | ===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:
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| retižewææ → reti - že - wææ
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| <small>''as people'' → ''person'' - plural - essive case</small>
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| The numeral endings are always placed before the case endings.
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| 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" | <center>''animate nouns''</center> || colspan="2" | <center>''inanimate nouns''</center>
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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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| Nouns are also declined in case by adding the following endings to the base form of the noun: | | Nouns are also declined in case by adding the following endings to the base form of the noun: |
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| | style="width: 100px;"| || style="width: 70px;"|<center><small>''front vowel''</small></center> || style="width: 70px;"|<center><small>''back vowel''</small></center> | | | || <center><small>consonantal class</small></center> || <center><small>vocalic class</small></center> |
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| | <center><small>''nominative''</small></center> || - || - | | | style="width: 100px;"| <center><small>''nominative''</small></center> || style="width: 60px;"| - || |
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| | <center><small>''accusative''</small></center> || -ne || -no | | | <center><small>''accusative''</small></center> || -ɴ / əɴ<sup><small>consonantal class</small></sup> || -ɴ |
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| | <center><small>''genitive''</small></center> || -rræ || -rra | | | <center><small>''gen.-dat.''</small></center> || -uɟ || -ɟ |
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| | <center><small>''dative''</small></center> || -hee || -hoo
| | | <center><small>''instrumental''</small></center> || -iq || -q |
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| | <center><small>''ablative''</small></center> || -śi || -śu
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| | <center><small>''instrumental''</small></center> || -ddee || -ddoo | |
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| | <center><small>''locative''</small></center> || -mi || -mu
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| | <center><small>''allative''</small></center> || -me || -mo
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| | <center><small>''delative''</small></center> || -mæ || -ma
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| | <center><small>''benefactive''</small></center> || -gæ || -ga
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| | <center><small>''causative''</small></center> || -bbii || -bbuu
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| | <center><small>''abessive''</small></center> || -jje || -jjo
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| | <center><small>''essive''</small></center> || -wææ || -waa
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| | <center><small>''comparative''</small></center> || -hhæ || -hha
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| | <center><small>''contrastive''</small></center> || -kkæ || -kka
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| | <center><small>''partitive''</small></center> || -ppii || -ppuu
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| | | <center><small>''locative''</small></center> || -aʈ || -ʈ |
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| Some examples are shown below: a semantically animate noun with front leading vowel, llærme, ''father'', a semantically inanimate noun with back leading vowel, kooto, ''house''.
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| | || colspan="2" | <center>llærme</center> || colspan="2" | <center>kooto</center>
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| | style="width: 100px;"| || style="width: 100px;"|<center><small>''singular''</small></center> || style="width: 100px;"|<center><small>''plural''</small></center> || style="width: 100px;"|<center><small>''singular''</small></center> || style="width: 100px;"|<center><small>''plural''</small></center>
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| | <center><small>''nominative''</small></center> || llærme || llærmeže || kooto || kootožo
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| | <center><small>''accusative''</small></center> || llærmene || llærmežene || kootono || kootožono
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| | <center><small>''genitive''</small></center> || llærmerræ || llærmežerræ || kootorra || kootožorra
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| | <center><small>''dative''</small></center> || llærmehee || llærmežehee || kootohoo || kootožohoo
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| | <center><small>''ablative''</small></center> || llærmeśi || llærmežeśi || kootośu || kootožośu
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| | <center><small>''instrumental''</small></center> || llærmeddee || llærmežeddee || kootoddoo || kootožoddoo
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| | <center><small>''locative''</small></center> || llærmemi || llærmežemi || kootomu || kootožomu
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| | <center><small>''allative''</small></center> || llærmeme || llærmežeme || kootomo || kootožomo
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| | <center><small>''delative''</small></center> || llærmemæ || llærmežemæ || kootoma || kootožoma
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| | <center><small>''benefactive''</small></center> || llærmegæ || llærmežegæ || kootoga || kootožoga
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| | <center><small>''causative''</small></center> || llærmebbii || llærmežebbii || kootobbuu || kootožobbuu
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| | <center><small>''abessive''</small></center> || llærmejje || llærmežejje || kootojjo || kootožojjo
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| | <center><small>''essive''</small></center> || llærmewææ || llærmežewææ || kootowaa || kootožowaa
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| | <center><small>''comparative''</small></center> || llærmehhæ || llærmežehhæ || kootohha || kootožohha
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| | <center><small>''contrastive''</small></center> || llærmekkæ || llærmežekkæ || kootokka || kootožokka
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| | <center><small>''partitive''</small></center> || llærmeppii || llærmežeppii || kootoppuu || kootožoppuu
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| In some texts, especially in the later period, semantically inanimate nouns display no ending in the accusative case, like the nominative ending.
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| tterni muuhahoo bbooda urrgamapuud
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| <small>the man gave water to the cow</small>
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