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{{PAGENAME}} is subject to a fair amount of accentual and dialectal variation. | {{PAGENAME}} is subject to a fair amount of accentual and dialectal variation. | ||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
For a Tigolic language, Anvyrese is quite highly inflected ( | For a Tigolic language, Anvyrese is quite highly inflected (especially its nouns and adjectives). | ||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
Anvyrese nouns have three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), three numbers (singular, plural and collective), and | Anvyrese nouns have three genders (masculine, feminine and neuter), three numbers (singular, plural and collective), and three states (nominative, genitive and construct). The singular construct must be memorized for every noun; the plural construct always ends in ''-av''. | ||
====The article==== | ====The article==== | ||
The article inflects and triggers mutation based on number and gender. | The article inflects and triggers mutation based on number and gender. | ||
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{| class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center;" | {| class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="text-align:center;" | ||
|+ '''Definite article''' | |+ '''Definite article''' | ||
! colspan="3" | singular || colspan="3" | plural || colspan=3 | collective | ! rowspan=2 | || colspan="3" | singular || colspan="3" | plural || colspan=3 | collective | ||
|- | |- | ||
! m. || f. || n. || m. || f. || n. || m. || f. || n. | ! m. || f. || n. || m. || f. || n. || m. || f. || n. | ||
|- | |- | ||
| ''y-N'' || ''y-L'' || ''y'' || ''na'' || ''nar'' || ''na-N'' || ''ba-N'' || ''ba-L'' || ''ba'' | ! nom. | ||
| ''y-N'' || ''y-L'' || ''y'' || ''na'' || ''nar'' || ''na-N'' || ''ba-N'' || ''ba-L'' || ''ba'' | |||
|- | |- | ||
! gen. | ! gen. | ||
| ''na-L'' || ''y-N'' || ''y-N'' || ''na'' || ''na'' || ''na'' || ''ba-L'' || ''ba-N'' || ''ba-N'' | | ''na-L'' || ''y-N'' || ''y-N'' || ''na'' || ''na'' || ''na'' || ''ba-L'' || ''ba-N'' || ''ba-N'' | ||
|} | |} | ||
===Adjectives=== | ===Adjectives=== | ||
Adjectives must agree with nouns in gender and | Adjectives must agree with nouns in gender, number and case. | ||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||