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Bamăriș gained an animacy distinction: non-Hebrew/Aramaic noun plurals are regularly -iņ (< -ug-n < *-óg-anna) if inanimate, -(ă)n if animate. Animate singular nouns always take the definite article ''nd'' while the inanimate singular article is ''ă'' before a consonant and ''ăn'' before a vowel. | Bamăriș gained an animacy distinction: non-Hebrew/Aramaic noun plurals are regularly -iņ (< -ug-n < *-óg-anna) if inanimate, -(ă)n if animate. Animate singular nouns always take the definite article ''nd'' while the inanimate singular article is ''ă'' before a consonant and ''ăn'' before a vowel. | ||
* nd břeythin 'the judge', nă břeythinăn 'the judges' | |||
* nd leynăv 'the child', nă leynăvn 'the children' | |||
* nd beybi 'the baby', nă beybin 'the babies' | |||
* nd Idăch 'the Jew', nă hIdăchn 'the Jews' | |||
* ă rowșin 'the rose', nă rowșiniņ 'the roses' | |||
* ăn ofis 'the office', nă hofisiņ 'the offices' | |||
The present tense auxiliary תּאָ is pronounced ''tu'' when stressed (when a subject pronoun follows or when used as "yes") and ''t' '' or ''tă'' when unstressed (when a noun follows). | The present tense auxiliary תּאָ is pronounced ''tu'' when stressed (when a subject pronoun follows or when used as "yes") and ''t' '' or ''tă'' when unstressed (when a noun follows). | ||