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Like in German, Tumachee has the ability of creating new words by adding existing words together. For example, the word "pill" is ''sikkumiḩ'', which is a combination of ''sikku'', "medicine" and ''-miḩ'', the suffix form of "small". | Like in German, Tumachee has the ability of creating new words by adding existing words together. For example, the word "pill" is ''sikkumiḩ'', which is a combination of ''sikku'', "medicine" and ''-miḩ'', the suffix form of "small". | ||
====Stem & suffixes==== | ====Stem & suffixes==== | ||
Words in Tumachee have two forms: a stem and a suffix form. The stem form are the standalone words themselves, sometimes called the nominative declension. The suffix forms are used for agglutinate words like the ''-miḩ'' in ''sikkumiḩ''. ''-miḩ'' is a | Words in Tumachee have two forms: a stem and a suffix form. The stem form are the standalone words themselves, sometimes called the nominative declension. The suffix forms are used for agglutinate words like the ''-miḩ'' in ''sikkumiḩ''. ''-miḩ'' is a suffix form of the adjective ''wêlmiḩ'', meaning "small". | ||
===Noun case=== | ===Noun case=== | ||
Tumachee has five noun cases: the nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and instrumentative. Each case has at the very least its own suffix, though the instrumentative case has its own prefix to go with the suffix. | Tumachee has five noun cases: the nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and instrumentative. Each case has at the very least its own suffix, though the instrumentative case has its own prefix to go with the suffix. | ||