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====Articles==== | ====Articles==== | ||
Plain articles accompany nouns and pseudo-nouns in the absolute state. Instead of relying on an epenthetic vowel to determine their syntactic functions such as pronouns, they are known to be arranged either before or after a nominal phrase (e.g. ''iru mur liviatan'' "it's the dead whale"). | |||
=====Nominal Articles===== | =====Nominal Articles===== | ||
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! colspan="9" | FEMININE | ! colspan="9" | FEMININE DECLENSION | ||
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! Nominative | ! Nominative | ||
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=====Enclitic Articles===== | =====Enclitic Articles===== | ||
Enclitic articles accompany nouns in the absolute state or when the equivalent plain article would appear again (e.g. ''bîbli iri saíkat'' "the philosopher's book", ''bîbli liviatan iruci'' "the book and the whale"). They may be either infixes or sufixes, depending on whether the noun is triradical or not, in which case an open space between consonants either draws the vowel or its inexistence pulls it away. Exceptions such as ''bîblV'' rather than ''bîbVl'' occur though due the presence of liquid consonants. | |||
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;" | |||
! rowspan="3" | | |||
! colspan="9" | MASCULINE/NEUTER DECLENSION | |||
|- | |||
! colspan="3" | Singular | |||
! colspan="3" | Dual | |||
! colspan="3" | Plural | |||
|- | |||
! Definite | |||
! Indefinite | |||
! Nomic | |||
! Definite | |||
! Indefinite | |||
! Nomic | |||
! Definite | |||
! Indefinite | |||
! Nomic | |||
|- | |||
! Nominative | |||
| -i || -u || -a || -ai || -au || -ā || -ī(N) || -ū(N) || -ā(N) | |||
|- | |||
! rowspan="1" | | |||
! colspan="9" | FEMININE DECLENSION | |||
|- | |||
! Nominative | |||
| -i(C) || -u(C) || -a(C) || -ai(C) || -au(C) || -ā(C) || -ī(N) || -ū(N) || -ā(N) | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
Liviatani... | Liviatani... | ||