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**'''Predicative''': Used for predicative nouns. This is not a true case but rather the absolutive fused to the copula. This fusing is optional and in the present indicative, the copula can be dropped entirely. | **'''Predicative''': Used for predicative nouns. This is not a true case but rather the absolutive fused to the copula. This fusing is optional and in the present indicative, the copula can be dropped entirely. | ||
***Absolutive ending in consonant | ***Absolutive ending in consonant or short, non-high-tone vowel: ''-é'' (declines as adjective), ''-dha'' (invariant; present only) - e.g. ''Maxammad'' → ''Maxammadé, Maxammaddha'' | ||
***Absolutive ending in long or high-tone vowel: ''-dhé'' (declines as adjective), ''-dha'' (invariant; present only) - e.g. ''Faadhumá'' → ''Faadhumarhé, Faadhumárha'' | |||
***Absolutive ending in long or high-tone vowel: ''- | |||
***Independent forms of the copula: invariant ''dha'' (present only), ''é'' (adjective declension), ''dhé'' (= ''dha + é''; adjective declension) | ***Independent forms of the copula: invariant ''dha'' (present only), ''é'' (adjective declension), ''dhé'' (= ''dha + é''; adjective declension) | ||
:e.g. ''Maxammadú náma / náma é / náma dha / náma dhé / namé / námadha.'' "Muhammad is a man." | |||
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