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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 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).

Proper names are indeclinable, i.e. they are always definite, and cannot be possessed.

====Number====

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). The asssociative suffix ''-ang-'' may be combined with the dual to form the associative dual (of which ''rommangâr'' 'two sides/pages of a paper' is an example).

====Definiteness====

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.

~~Proper names are indeclinable, i.e. they are always definite, and cannot be possessed.~~

====First declension====

The first declension consists primarily of masculine nouns. Nouns ending in a consonant may contain an epenthetic ''y'' to break up forbidden consonant clusters, particularly those ending in resonants. The ''ħ''- and ''q''- stem nouns always end in ''-ā'', and this mutates to ''-aħ-''/''-aq'' before a ending beginning with a vowel, and exhibits the form ''-aC-'' before an ending beginning with any consonant. (Some nouns ending in ''-ng'' are underlyingly (and alternate with) ''nħ-'' or ''nq-'' stems.) The ''h''-stems have a long vowel ending by default, which shortens in front of a consonant ending, along with gemination of any fricative-onset endings. The ı-stem nouns, ending in ''-i'', display the ''-i'' before a possessive suffix beginning with a consonant, and a ''-ı'' before one beginning with a vowel. Geminate stems end in a long vowel plus a final consonant in their base forms, which changes to a short vowel + geminate.

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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 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).
+Proper names are indeclinable, i.e. they are always definite, and cannot be possessed.
+====Number====
+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). The asssociative suffix ''-ang-'' may be combined with the dual to form the associative dual (of which ''rommangâr'' 'two sides/pages of a paper' is an example).
+====Definiteness====
 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.
-Proper names are indeclinable, i.e. they are always definite, and cannot be possessed.
 ====First declension====
 The first declension consists primarily of masculine nouns. Nouns ending in a consonant may contain an epenthetic ''y'' to break up forbidden consonant clusters, particularly those ending in resonants. The ''ħ''- and ''q''- stem nouns always end in ''-ā'', and this mutates to ''-aħ-''/''-aq'' before a ending beginning with a vowel, and exhibits the form ''-aC-'' before an ending beginning with any consonant. (Some nouns ending in ''-ng'' are underlyingly (and alternate with) ''nħ-'' or ''nq-'' stems.) The ''h''-stems have a long vowel ending by default, which shortens in front of a consonant ending, along with gemination of any fricative-onset endings. The ı-stem nouns, ending in ''-i'', display the ''-i'' before a possessive suffix beginning with a consonant, and a ''-ı'' before one beginning with a vowel. Geminate stems end in a long vowel plus a final consonant in their base forms, which changes to a short vowel + geminate.