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* 𐤊𐤅𐤕𐤁 ''kūthīb'', writer; | * 𐤊𐤅𐤕𐤁 ''kūthīb'', writer; | ||
* 𐤊𐤕𐤁𐤕 ''kathavti'', I wrote; | * 𐤊𐤕𐤁𐤕 ''kathavti'', I wrote; | ||
* 𐤀𐤊𐤕𐤁 | * 𐤀𐤊𐤕𐤁 ''ekhtab'', I shall write; | ||
* 𐤋𐤊𐤕𐤁 | * 𐤋𐤊𐤕𐤁 ''likhtōb'', he shall write; | ||
* 𐤉𐤊𐤕𐤁𐤀 | * 𐤉𐤊𐤕𐤁𐤀 ''yikhtuba'', may he write. | ||
===Nouns and adjectives=== | ===Nouns and adjectives=== | ||
Lebanese nouns and adjectives are inflected to show gender, number, case and [[w:Construct state|state]], though in a common speech cases (of which modern Lebanese preserves only two: nominative and genitive) are often dropped. Old Phoenician also had a third case for nouns in singular number - the accusative, but it has already been dropped in Phoenician. | Lebanese nouns and adjectives are inflected to show gender, number, case and [[w:Construct state|state]], though in a common speech cases (of which modern Lebanese preserves only two: nominative and genitive) are often dropped. Old Phoenician also had a third case for nouns in singular number - the accusative, but it has already been dropped in Phoenician. | ||