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Favored things are frequently referred to by a gender higher than they should (a weapon might be referred to by a fighter as an animate thing, instead of an inanimate, or a bit of transportation might be by it’s pilot/driver as a personal thing instead of an animate). | Favored things are frequently referred to by a gender higher than they should (a weapon might be referred to by a fighter as an animate thing, instead of an inanimate, or a bit of transportation might be by it’s pilot/driver as a personal thing instead of an animate). | ||
===Plurality=== | |||
Nanyse uses four plural forms: | |||
{| class="bluetable lightbluebg mw-collapsible mw-collapsed" style="text-align:center; vertical-align:middle; width: 675px;" | |||
=== | ! colspan="4" | Plural Forms | ||
|- | |||
! style="text-align:center;"| | |||
! style="text-align:center;" |# of Subjects | |||
! style="text-align:center;" |Suffix | |||
! style="text-align:center;" |Example | |||
|- | |||
! style="" |Singular | |||
| 1 | |||
| (none) | |||
| jæ (I or me) | |||
|- | |||
! style="" |Dual | |||
| 2 | |||
| ‘-z’ (‘-ez’ for words ending in ‘s’) | |||
| jæz (we, meaning of me and one other) | |||
|- | |||
! style="" |Paucal | |||
| 3 - 5 | |||
| ‘-za’ (‘-eza’ for words ending in ‘s’) | |||
| jæza (we, meaning of me and two to four others) | |||
|- | |||
! style="" |Plural | |||
| 6+ | |||
| reduplication (the word is repeated) | |||
| jæjæ (we, meaning of me and five or more others) | |||
|} | |||
==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||