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| rowspan=2 | — || ''-i'' || ''-os'' || ''-ta'' || ''-si'' || ''-es'' || ''- | | rowspan=2 | — || ''-i'' || ''-os'' || ''-ta'' || ''-si'' || ''-es'' || ''-as'' || ''-to'' | ||
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! animate | ! animate | ||
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! Singular | ! Singular | ||
| ''rukum'' || ''rukumi'' || ''rukumos'' || ''rukumta'' || ''rukumsi'' || ''rukumes'' || '' | | ''rukum'' || ''rukumi'' || ''rukumos'' || ''rukumta'' || ''rukumsi'' || ''rukumes'' || ''rukumas'' || ''rukumto'' | ||
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! Paucal | ! Paucal | ||
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====Animacy==== | ====Animacy==== | ||
Nouns in Elvarri are categorised into either '''animate''' or '''inanimate''' nouns, with their case endings differing based on this animacy. Generally, living things such as {{l|elva|dud}} "tree", {{l|elva|tokis}} "child" or {{l|elva|vanu}} "mother" are inflected as animate, while objects are inflected as inanimate, as in {{l|elva|rukum}} "bread", {{l|elva|farfa}} "flatbread" and {{l|elva|gort}} "container, bottle". However, there are many exceptions to this rule, with many nouns that are ostensibly animate taking on inanimate inflections and vice versa. For example, {{l|elva|vard}}, meaning "meeting spot, meeting place" or by extension "city, ward, town, seaport", is animate, despite referring to a location, which would logically be inanimate (as in {{l|elva|kin}} "field"). These exceptions are usually because the words already imply people are involved; a ''vard'', for example, could not feasibly exist without people to build it or decide on its location. | Nouns in Elvarri are categorised into either '''animate''' or '''inanimate''' nouns, with their case endings differing based on this animacy. Generally, living things such as {{l|elva|dud}} "tree", {{l|elva|tokis}} "child" or {{l|elva|vanu}} "mother" are inflected as animate, while objects are inflected as inanimate, as in {{l|elva|rukum}} "bread", {{l|elva|farfa}} "flatbread" and {{l|elva|gort}} "container, bottle". However, there are many exceptions to this rule, with many nouns that are ostensibly animate taking on inanimate inflections and vice versa. For example, {{l|elva|vard}}, meaning "meeting spot, meeting place" or by extension "city, ward, town, seaport", is animate, despite referring to a location, which would logically be inanimate (as in {{l|elva|kin}} "field"). These exceptions are usually because the words already imply people are involved; a ''vard'', for example, could not feasibly exist without people to build it or decide on its location. | ||
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|narrow= | |narrow= | ||
|thin= | |thin= | ||
|woman= | |woman=kavin | ||
|man (adult male)= | |man (adult male)=tades | ||
|man (human being)=hosep | |man (human being)=hosep | ||
|child=tokis | |child=tokis | ||