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Note that all nouns with '''-n''' have their direct and vocative plural forms ''identical'' to the singular ones - all other inflections (including the dual) are the same as the other nouns. Thus e.g. '''samin''' may be either ''child'' or ''children'', and it is usually the verb that marks the number - compare ''samin mālchė'' "the kid runs" and ''samin mālchīran'' "the kids run".<br/>These unmarked plurals are regular - note that ''hulin'' (woman) has both a regular plural (''hulin''), used in a wider scope (e.g. ''chlouvānumi hulin'' "Chlouvānem women") and an irregular plural (''hilāni'') used in other contexts (e.g. ''nanā hilāni'' "those women there").

''-en'' nouns decline following the 1m pattern (with unmarked plural).

¹ As in 2s nouns, 2m nouns' genitive plural also has the form ''-eimi'' if the consonant before it is anything but ''l'' - cf. ''sasarum'' (legend), gen. pl. ''sasareimi''.

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 Note that all nouns with '''-n''' have their direct and vocative plural forms ''identical'' to the singular ones - all other inflections (including the dual) are the same as the other nouns. Thus e.g. '''samin''' may be either ''child'' or ''children'', and it is usually the verb that marks the number - compare ''samin mālchė'' "the kid runs" and ''samin mālchīran'' "the kids run".<br/>These unmarked plurals are regular - note that ''hulin'' (woman) has both a regular plural (''hulin''), used in a wider scope (e.g. ''chlouvānumi hulin'' "Chlouvānem women") and an irregular plural (''hilāni'') used in other contexts (e.g. ''nanā hilāni'' "those women there").
+''-en'' nouns decline following the 1m pattern (with unmarked plural).
 ¹ As in 2s nouns, 2m nouns' genitive plural also has the form ''-eimi'' if the consonant before it is anything but ''l'' - cf. ''sasarum'' (legend), gen. pl. ''sasareimi''.