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Primary stress is routinely placed on the final syllable of a word, except where that syllable contains ''y'' /ə/, e.g. ''atnel'' /at'nel/ but ''atyn'' /'atən/. | Primary stress is routinely placed on the final syllable of a word, except where that syllable contains ''y'' /ə/, e.g. ''atnel'' /at'nel/ but ''atyn'' /'atən/. | ||
==Morphology and Grammar== | |||
===Nouns=== | |||
All Pulqer nouns are either masculine or feminine in gender and singular or plural in number. However, neither of these things are shown on the noun itself, which is usually immutable. For example, ''utyn'' is a masculine noun and can mean "man" or "men" whilst ''hityn'' is feminine and may mean "woman" or "women". | |||
The gender and number of a noun is either unspecified or is indicated by an attached determiner, an article, possessive adjective, demonstrative adjective, interrogative adjective etc. | |||
Some masculine nouns ending in ''-tur'' may be made feminine by substituting with the suffix ''-trik'', e.g. ''kantur'' "singer" m., ''kantrik'' "songstress" f. | |||
===Determiners=== | |||
====Articles==== | |||
Articles are either definite (''su'') or indefinite (''nu'') and decline by gender and number. They always precede the noun they modify directly, or with intervening adjectives. | |||
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! colspan="2;" | Definite | |||
! colspan="2;" | Indefinite | |||
|- | |||
! style="width: 100px" | Singular | |||
! style="width: 100px" | Plural | |||
! style="width: 100px" | Singular | |||
! style="width: 100px" | Plural | |||
|- | |||
! Masculine | |||
| ''su'' | |||
| ''si'' | |||
| ''nu'' | |||
| ''ni'' | |||
|- | |||
! Feminine | |||
| ''sa'' | |||
| ''se'' | |||
| ''na'' | |||
| ''ne'' | |||
|} | |||
Examples: | |||
:: ''nu utyn'' "a man" | |||
:: ''si utyn'' "the men" | |||
:: ''ne kes'' "some houses" | |||
:: ''sa kat'' "the cat" | |||
====Possessive Adjectives==== | |||