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Nouns and adjectives have a rich morphology, albeit less ornate than verbs. They inflect for number, definiteness and possessedness, but not for case. Nouns have three numbers (singular, dual and plural) and two genders (masculine and feminine), and belong in one of three declensions. In third- and fourth-person possessed forms, Themsaran makes a distinction, realized tonally, between the ''absolute'' possessed form, which indicates a noun possessed by a pronoun, and the ''conjunct'' possessed form, used to indicate a possessive relationship between two nouns and agreeing with the gender of the possessor.

Dual is used for body parts (e.g. ''timqâr'' 'eyes') as well as ~~opposite~~ or complementary concepts (e.g. ''rynšrîe'' ~~lit. 'the two sexes/genders', referring to~~ the two biological or grammatical genders).

Dual is used for body parts (e.g. ''timqâr'' 'eyes') as well as opposing or complementary concepts (e.g. ''rynšrîe'' which denotes the two biological or grammatical genders, as opposed to plural ''rynšrír'' which refers to 'classes/categories' in general).

Definite forms are used as the vocative. Definiteness is used more often than in English, but less than in continental European languages. Names of deities or deifications are primarily indefinite, but take definite agreement.

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 Nouns and adjectives have a rich morphology, albeit less ornate than verbs. They inflect for number, definiteness and possessedness, but not for case. Nouns have three numbers (singular, dual and plural) and two genders (masculine and feminine), and belong in one of three declensions. In third- and fourth-person possessed forms, Themsaran makes a distinction, realized tonally, between the ''absolute'' possessed form, which indicates a noun possessed by a pronoun, and the ''conjunct'' possessed form, used to indicate a possessive relationship between two nouns and agreeing with the gender of the possessor.
-Dual is used for body parts (e.g. ''timqâr'' 'eyes') as well as opposite or complementary concepts (e.g. ''rynšrîe'' lit. 'the two sexes/genders', referring to the two biological or grammatical genders).
+Dual is used for body parts (e.g. ''timqâr'' 'eyes') as well as opposing or complementary concepts (e.g. ''rynšrîe'' which denotes the two biological or grammatical genders, as opposed to plural ''rynšrír'' which refers to 'classes/categories' in general).
 Definite forms are used as the vocative. Definiteness is used more often than in English, but less than in continental European languages. Names of deities or deifications are primarily indefinite, but take definite agreement.