User:Bukkia/sandboxVIII

Nouns

The noun cluster is formed by a noun, carrying the main meaning, and by other noun-type forms, namely adjectives, which specify this meaning or add other meanings to the main noun. Inside of a noun cluster, the noun can be replaced by a pronoun.

The noun is usually located in the center of the noun cluster, being preceded or followed by every other specifying form.

Non-adjectival elements conveying possession and belonging are always placed after the noun, as well as every attributive adjective.

sōgu vīrurɛ
the man’s house

Every attributive adjectives, conversely, is always placed before the noun.

ɔddužo ləja
my hand

ež hɔva ɔne
the young woman

The role of the noun cluster in the sentence and its number are marked by case and number endings. These endings mark also other adjectival elements inside the noun cluster, resulting this in the process called nominal agreement.

Both attributive and predicative adjectives agree in case and number with the noun they specify. Other elements, which convey possession or belonging do not agree with the main nominal form.

ež hɔva əjro əjmejh hɔguh
the young man is going home

ɔddunužo hɔgo
our house

ežno hɔvano ɔneno
the young women

ežno ɔneno hɔvano
the women are young

As it is essentially regarded as a specifying form, the article is also always placed before the entire noun cluster.

ežno rejuno hɔgono čejžəre ugejre əjrore
the new houses of the old man

The grammar role of noun clusters can be further specified by prepositions, which are placed before the cluster. Thus, it can be stated that the noun cluster can be introduced by a preposition.

cegihugɔ gɔd ežəre hɔgore
I am talking about the house