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{{PAGENAME}} inflected nouns with endings. Case/number and personal endings were eventually elided or turned into tone distinctions. Writers were nevertheless expected to write all case and personal endings, until the 1811 v.C. re-standardization of the orthography abolished personal endings as well as most number/case endings. | {{PAGENAME}} inflected nouns with endings. Case/number and personal endings were eventually elided or turned into tone distinctions. Writers were nevertheless expected to write all case and personal endings, until the 1811 v.C. re-standardization of the orthography abolished personal endings as well as most number/case endings. | ||
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Nouns can be preceded by a definite article ''ein''. | |||
=====Gender===== | =====Gender===== | ||
Nouns have two genders, animate and inanimate. Nouns of each gender take their respective verb endings and pronouns in {{PAGENAME}}. | Nouns have two genders, animate and inanimate. Nouns of each gender take their respective verb endings and pronouns in {{PAGENAME}}. | ||