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===Nouns===
===Nouns===
Luthic grammar is almost typical of the grammar of Romance languages in general. Cases exist for personal pronouns (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive), and unlike other Romance languages (except Romanian), they also exist for nouns, but are often ignored in common speech, mainly because of the Italian influence, a language who lacks noun cases. There are three basic classes of nouns in Luthic, referred to as genders, masculine, feminine and neuter. Masculine nouns typically end in -u, with plural marked by -i, feminine nouns typically end in -a, with plural marked by -ae, and neuter nouns typically end in -o, with plural marked by -a. A fourth category of nouns is [[w:Marker (linguistics)|unmarked]] for gender, ending in -e in the singular and -i in the plural; a variant of the unmarked declension is found ending in -r in the singular and -i in the plural, it lacks neuter nouns:
Luthic grammar is almost typical of the grammar of Romance languages in general. Cases exist for personal pronouns (nominative, accusative, dative, genitive), and unlike other Romance languages (except Romanian), they also exist for nouns, but are often ignored in common speech, mainly because of the Italian influence, a language who lacks noun cases. There are three basic classes of nouns in Luthic, referred to as genders, masculine, feminine and neuter. Masculine nouns typically end in ''-u'', with plural marked by ''-i'', feminine nouns typically end in ''-a'', with plural marked by ''-ae'', and neuter nouns typically end in ''-o'', with plural marked by ''-a''. Some feminine nouns, together with masculine nouns, the so called u-stems may also typically end in ''-u'', with the plural marked by ''-us'', while neuter u-stems have the plural marked by ''-ua''. A fifth category of nouns is [[w:Marker (linguistics)|unmarked]] for gender, ending in ''-e'' in the singular and ''-i'' in the plural; a variant of the unmarked declension is found ending in ''-r'' in the singular and ''-i'' in the plural, it lacks neuter nouns:


Examples:
Examples:
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|-
| Fruit || Neuter || Acrano || Acrana
| Fruit || Neuter || Acrano || Acrana
|-
| Port || Masculine || Portu || Portus
|-
| Hand || Feminine || Manu || Manus
|-
| Wealth || Neuter || Faeu || Faeua
|-
|-
| Love || Masculine || Amore || Amori
| Love || Masculine || Amore || Amori
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| craftem
| craftem
| broþarem
| broþarem
|}
The declension paradigm of u-stems nouns is simplier than other nouns, since the nominative is identical to the accusative.
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"
|-
! Number
! Case
! u-stem <sup>m</sup>
! u-stem <sup>f</sup>
! u-stem <sup>n</sup>
|-
!rowspan=4| Singular
! {{small|nom.}}
| portu
| manu
| faeu
|-
! {{small|acc.}}
| portu
| manu
| faeu
|-
! {{small|dat.}}
| portau
| manau
| faeau
|-
! {{small|gen.}}
| portaus ~ portus
| manaus ~ manus
| faeaus ~ faeus
|-
!rowspan=4| Plural
! {{small|nom.}}
| portus
| manus
| faeua
|-
! {{small|acc.}}
| portus
| manus
| faeua
|-
! {{small|dat.}}
| portum
| manum
| faeum
|-
! {{small|gen.}}
| portivo
| manivo
| faeivo
|}
|}


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