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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:
| -že | -žo | -hii | -huu |
Nouns are also declined in case by adding the following endings to the base form of the noun:
| - | - | |
| -ne | -no | |
| -rræ | -rra | |
| -hee | -hoo | |
| -śi | -śu | |
| -ddee | -ddoo | |
| -mi | -mu | |
| -me | -mo | |
| -mæ | -ma | |
| -gæ | -ga | |
| -bbii | -bbuu | |
| -jje | -jjo | |
| -wææ | -waa | |
| -hhæ | -hha | |
| -kkæ | -kka | |
| -ppii | -ppuu |
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.
| llærme | llærmeže | kooto | kootožo | |
| -ne | -no | |||
| -rræ | -rra | |||
| -hee | -hoo | |||
| -śi | -śu | |||
| -ddee | -ddoo | |||
| -mi | -mu | |||
| -me | -mo | |||
| -mæ | -ma | |||
| -gæ | -ga | |||
| -bbii | -bbuu | |||
| -jje | -jjo | |||
| -wææ | -waa | |||
| -hhæ | -hha | |||
| -kkæ | -kka | |||
| -ppii | -ppuu | |||
In some texts, especially in the later period, semantically inanimate nouns display no ending in the accusative case, like the nominative ending.
tterni muuhahoo bbooda urrgamapuud the man gave water to the cow
